John dewey (1 859101October 20th-1June 9521) is an American philosopher, educator and master of pragmatism. If Peirce founded the pragmatic method and william james established the pragmatic truth view, then Dewey built the pragmatic theory building.
His works cover science, art, religious ethics, politics, education, sociology, history and economics, making pragmatism a unique cultural phenomenon in the United States.
Dewey is a thinker who attaches importance to the interests and education of the blue-collar class. But he did not encourage the blue-collar class to overthrow the old world. His concern for the blue-collar class is reflected in his educational philosophy and in the book Populism and Education.
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Dewey's works show the fact that he is a scholar devoted to writing. When he was studying in university of vermont, he showed that he was a good student who devoted himself to it. But he is not good at words and sharp in writing, and he is not a person who expresses his views with thoughts. His works are not easily understood at once.
Dewey inherited some of Hegel's thoughts in his early philosophical views, but due to the influence of biology and biological evolution theory on his early thoughts, in his paper "From absolutism to experimentalism", he has anatomically described the ins and outs of his ideological transformation and explained why he abandoned the absolutism of Hegelian school in Germany in the19th century.
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