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'''John Dewey''' (1859-1952) was a philosopher of [[education]] who advocated [[instrumentalism]] and is generally considered the father of Progressivism in education. He sought the reconstruction of society through education in which children learned for themselves from the environment rather than from teachers.

'''John Dewey''' (1859-1952) was a major American philosopher and a leading [[liberal]] commentator on public affairs. A student of [[Charles Peirce]] he was a leading exponent of [[pragmatism]] and [[instrumentalism]]. Dewey was especially influential as the philosopher of "progressive education."  He sought the reconstruction of society through education in which children discovered knowledge for themselves rather than repeat rote learning .

==Dewey and religion==

==Dewey and religion==

Dewey mostly avoided lectures on religion.  Important exceptions include his 1892 address "Christianity and Democracy" given to the University of Michigan Students' Christian Association and his 1933 Terry Lectures at Yale University&mdash;the basis of his 1934 book ''A Common Faith''.  In ''A Common Faith'' Dewey attempted to somehow separate the experience of the "religious" from the supernatural aspects of "God" and "religion".<ref> [http://books.google.com/books?id=lIGBQMkw-v8C ''Reinhold Niebuhr and John Dewey: An American Odyssey''], Daniel F. Rice, 1993, State University of New York Press, ISBN 0-7914-1345-4, pages 43-58 (these pages are Chapter 5 titled "A Common Faih") </ref>  According to the scholar Steven C. Rockefeller, Dewey was an American [[Feuerbach]] and keenly interested in gutting what he saw as Christianity's "false" and "harmful" supernatural characteristics.  Both Dewey and Feuerbach believed that they possessed a deep philosophical understanding of Christianity.  Their shared belief rejected the [[Incarnation]] and all other biblical miracles.<ref> [http://books.google.com/books?id=LOc6q5lmEj8C ''John Dewey: Religious Faith and Democratic Humanism''], Steven C. Rockefeller, Columbia University Press, 1991, ISBN 0231073488, ISBN 9780231073486, 683 pages

Dewey mostly avoided religious topics.  Important exceptions include his 1892 address "Christianity and Democracy" given to the University of Michigan Students' Christian Association and his 1933 Terry Lectures at Yale University&mdash;the basis of his 1934 book ''A Common Faith''.  In ''A Common Faith'' Dewey attempted to somehow separate the experience of the "religious" from the supernatural aspects of "God" and "religion".<ref> [http://books.google.com/books?id=lIGBQMkw-v8C ''Reinhold Niebuhr and John Dewey: An American Odyssey''], Daniel F. Rice, 1993, State University of New York Press, ISBN 0-7914-1345-4, pages 43-58 (these pages are Chapter 5 titled "A Common Faih") </ref>  According to the scholar Steven C. Rockefeller, Dewey was an American [[Feuerbach]] and keenly interested in gutting what he saw as Christianity's "false" and "harmful" supernatural characteristics.  Both Dewey and Feuerbach believed that they possessed a deep philosophical understanding of Christianity.  Their shared belief rejected the [[Incarnation]] and all other biblical miracles.<ref> [http://books.google.com/books?id=LOc6q5lmEj8C ''John Dewey: Religious Faith and Democratic Humanism''], Steven C. Rockefeller, Columbia University Press, 1991, ISBN 0231073488, ISBN 9780231073486, 683 pages

*<small> Choice v. 29 (March 1992) p. 1094 Title: John Dewey

*<small> Choice v. 29 (March 1992) p. 1094 Title: John Dewey

"The way in which Rockefeller (Middlebury College) has presented the generally accepted two periods of Dewey's development (childhood through the Michigan years and from Chicago on) enables him to show the continuous role of religion in Dewey's life and thought as his thought evolved. What emerges is not only a broadened perspective on Dewey's naturalism, but the best intellectual biography of Dewey that we have. . . . The book fills a need that George Dykhuizen's The Life and Mind of John Dewey {BRD 1973} did not, despite all that work's value as a factual resource."</small>

"The way in which Rockefeller (Middlebury College) has presented the generally accepted two periods of Dewey's development (childhood through the Michigan years and from Chicago on) enables him to show the continuous role of religion in Dewey's life and thought as his thought evolved. What emerges is not only a broadened perspective on Dewey's naturalism, but the best intellectual biography of Dewey that we have. . . . The book fills a need that George Dykhuizen's The Life and Mind of John Dewey {BRD 1973} did not, despite all that work's value as a factual resource."</small>

[[category:philosophers|Dewey, John]]

[[category:philosophers|Dewey, John]]