ONT Re: The Clear Rhetoric of Democracy
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| What I want to select for attention from Dewey's thought
| is a philosophical justification of democracy that I
| believe one can find in his work. I shall call it
| the 'epistemological justification of democracy'
| and, although I shall state it in my own words,
| I shall deliberately select terms from Dewey's
| own philosophical vocabulary.
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| The claim, then, is this: Democracy is not just one form of social life
| among other workable forms of social life; it is the precondition for
| the full application of intelligence to the solution of social problems.
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| Hilary Putnam (1992, page 180), from:
|"A Reconsideration of Deweyan Democracy",
| pages 180-200 in 'Renewing Philosophy',
| Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
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