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John Dewey è stato un filosofo e pedagogista statunitense.

È stato anche scrittore e professore universitario. Ha esercitato una profonda influenza sulla cultura, sul costume politico e sui sistemi educativi del proprio paese. Intervenne su questioni politiche, sociali, etiche, come il voto alle donne e sulla delicata questione dell'ingiusta condanna degli anarchici Sacco e Vanzetti. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. Ottobre 1859 – 1. Giugno 1952
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“Il sé non è qualcosa di preconfezionato, ma è in continua formazione attraverso la scelta dell'azione.”

John Dewey

“Tutto quel che la società ha compiuto per se stessa è posto, mediante l'istruzione, a disposizione dei suoi membri futuri.”

John Dewey

Origine: Scuola e società, p. 1

“Finché l'arte sarà il salone di bellezza della civiltà, né l'arte né la civiltà saranno al sicuro.”

John Dewey

Origine: Da Arte come esperienza.

“Una società consiste di un certo numero di individui tenuti insieme dal fatto di lavorare in una stessa direzione in uno spirito comune, e di perseguire mire comuni.”

John Dewey

Origine: Scuola e società, p. 7

“L'unità di tutte le scienze è trovata nella geografia. Il significato della geografia è che essa presenta la terra come la sede duratura delle occupazioni dell'uomo.”

John Dewey

Origine: Scuola e società, p. 11

“La storia non deve essere presentata come un'accumulazione di risultati conseguiti o come una mera esposizione di avvenimenti, ma come una poderosa realtà in azione.”

John Dewey

Origine: Scuola e società, p. 108

Frasi sull'arte di John Dewey

“Gran parte dei più celebrati pionieri dell' "educazione nuova" ha attinto a queste pagine, direttamente o indirettamente, stimolo a riproporsi criticamente parecchi problemi della pedagogia e della didattica e suggestioni profonde.”

John Dewey

Ernesto Codignola
Scuola e società, Citazioni sul libro

“I nostri musei e le nostre gallerie d'arte d'oggi, in cui sono relegate e depositate opere d'arte bella, rendono evidenti alcune cause che hanno fatto sì che l'arte venisse segregata.”

John Dewey

“L'arte è una qualità che permea un'esperienza; non è l'esperienza stessa se non per metafora. L'esperienza estetica è sempre più che estetica.”

John Dewey

XIV, Arte e civiltà, 381
L'arte come esperienza

“Guardare un'opera d'arte per accertare l'osservanza di certe regole e la conformità a certi canoni, impoverisce la percezione. (IX, Il contenuto comune delle arti, p. 242)”

John Dewey

L'arte come esperienza

“Le teorie che attribuiscono all'arte un intento e un effetto morale diretti falliscono poiché non tengono conto della civiltà collettiva che è il contesto in cui le opere d'arte vengono prodotte e godute.”

John Dewey

XIV, Arte e civiltà, p. 404
L'arte come esperienza

John Dewey Frasi e Citazioni

“C'è sempre qualcosa di stupido nel volgere la poesia in una prosa che si ritiene debba spiegare il significato della poesia. (VIII, L'organizzazione delle energie, p. 194)”

John Dewey

L'arte come esperienza

“Non c'è motivo sociale evidente nell'acquisto di puro sapere, non c'è chiaro beneficio sociale nel procurarselo.”

John Dewey

Origine: Scuola e società, p. 9

“Il mondo all'infuori della sua relazione con l'attività umana non è mondo.”

John Dewey

Origine: Scuola e società, p. 11

Sul mondo

“La terra è la sorgente ultima di qualsiasi alimento dell'uomo.”

John Dewey

Origine: Scuola e società, p. 11

“Quando natura e società vivranno nell'aula scolastica, quando le forme e gli strumenti didattici saranno subordinati alla sostanza dell'esperienza, allora sarà possibile operare questa identificazione, e la cultura diventerà la parola d'ordine della democrazia.”

John Dewey

Origine: Scuola e società, p. 40

Sull'età , Democrazia , Natura

“La consapevolezza della finalità sociale della storia frena la tendenza a ridurre la storia a mito, novella o pura letteratura.”

John Dewey

Origine: Scuola e società, p. 110

Letteratura , Storia

“Ci vuole più umiltà nei nostri momenti di successo che non in quelli di sconfitta.”

John Dewey

Origine: Da Natura e condotta dell'uomo.

Successo

“[Emerson è] il filosofo della democrazia [e] quel cittadino del Nuovo Mondo il cui nome si possa pronunciare insieme a quello di Platone.”

John Dewey

Origine: Da Emerson: The Philosopher of Democracy, 1903.

Democrazia , Sul mondo

“V'è alcunché di ridicolo e sconcertante insieme nel modo in cui gli uomini si sono fatti influenzare al punto da ritenere che il modo di pensare della scienza colga l'intima realtà delle cose, e nel fatto che essi definiscono falsi gli altri modi di pensare le cose, di percepirle e di goderle. Ciò è ridicolo perché questi concetti scientifici, come ogni altro strumento, sono fabbricati dall'uomo espressamente nel tentativo di giungere alla realizzazione di un determinato scopo, quello cioè della massima convertibilità di ogni oggetto di pensiero in qualsiasi altro […]. Ma tali modi di pensiero non sono dei rivali o dei sostituti degli oggetti percepiti e goduti più di quanto non lo fosse, nei riguardi della stoffa, il telaio elettrico che è certo uno strumento di maggior efficacia del telaio a mano.”

John Dewey

Origine: Da La ricerca della certezza.

Sugli uomini , Modo , Pensiero , Scienza

“Non vi è incomprensione più diffusa della pittura di quella che riguarda la natura del disegno. L'osservatore, che ha appreso a riconoscere, ma non a percepire esteticamente, sosta davanti a un Botticelli, a un Greco, o a un Cézanne e dice: «Peccato che un simile pittore non abbia mai imparato a disegnare!»”

John Dewey

V, L'oggetto espressivo, p. 111
L'arte come esperienza

Pittura , Disegno , Natura

“Mentre tra prosa e poesia non c'è una differenza esattamente definibile, tra prosaico e poetico c'è un abisso in quanto termini estremi limitativi di tendenze dell'esperienza. Uno di essi realizza il potere delle parole di esprimere ciò che esiste in cielo, in terra e sotto i mari per mezzo dell'estensione; l'altro per mezzo dell'intensità.”

John Dewey

X, Il contenuto variabile delle arti, p. 284
L'arte come esperienza

“Lo scrittore, il compositore, lo scultore e il pittore possono ritornare, durante il processo di produzione, su ciò che hanno fatto in precedenza. Quando nella fase passiva o percettiva dell'esperienza ciò che è stato fatto non soddisfa, possono, fino ad un certo punto ricominciare da capo. Questi ritorni non sono così facili a farsi nel caso dell'architettura – il che è forse una delle ragioni per le quali esistono tanti edifici così brutti.”

John Dewey

III, Come di forma un'esperienza, p. 64
L'arte come esperienza

“Le classificazioni rigide sono inette (se sono prese sul serio) perché distraggono l'attenzione da quello che è esteticamente fondamentale: il carattere, qualitativamente unico e integrale, dell'esperienza di un prodotto artistico.”

John Dewey

X, Il contenuto variabile delle arti, p. 257
L'arte come esperienza

John Dewey: Frasi in inglese

“Surrender of individuality by the many to someone who is taken to be a superindividual explains the retrograde movement of society. Dictatorships and totalitarian states, and belief in the inevitability of this or that result coming to pass are, strange as it may sound, ways of denying the reality of time and the creativeness of the individual.”

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Time and Individuality (1940)

“A philosophy has no private store of knowledge or methods for attaining truth, so it has no private access to good. As it accepts knowledge and principles from those competent in science and inquiry, it accepts the goods that are diffused in human experience. It has no Mosaic or Pauline authority of revelation entrusted to it. But it has the authority of intelligence, of criticism of these common and natural goods.”

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Experience and Nature (1925)

“The application of scientific formulations of the principle of probability statistically determined is thus a logical corollary of the principle already stated, that the subject matter of scientific findings is relational, not individual. It is for this reason that it is safe to predict the ultimate triumph of the statistical doctrine.”

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Time and Individuality (1940)

“The animating purpose of James was, on the other hand, primarily moral and artistic. It is expressed in his phrase, "block universe," employed as a term of adverse criticism. Mechanism and idealism were abhorrent to him because they both hold to a closed universe in which there is no room for novelty and adventure. Both sacrifice individuality and all the values, moral and aesthetic, which hang upon individuality; for according to absolute idealism, as to mechanistic materialism, the individual is simply a part determined by the whole of which he is a part. Only a philosophy of pluralism, of genuine indetermination, and of change which is real and intrinsic gives significance to individuality. It alone justifies struggle in creative activity and gives opportunity for the emergence of the genuinely new.”

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Time and Individuality (1940)

“This intelligence-testing business reminds me of the way they used to weigh hogs in Texas. They would get a long plank, put it over a cross-bar, and somehow tie the hog on one end of the plank. They'd search all around till they found a stone that would balance the weight of the hog and they'd put that on the other end of the plank. Then they'd guess the weight of the stone.”

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Quoted by Dorothy Canfield Fisher in Vermont Tradition http://books.google.com/books?id=K7wMAAAAYAAJ&q=%22This+intelligence-testing+business+reminds+me+of+the+way+they+used+to+weigh+hogs+in+Texas+They+would+get+a+long+plank+put+it+over+a+cross-bar+and+somehow+tie+the+hog+on+one+end+of+the+plank+They'd+search+all+around+till+they+found+a+stone+that+would+balance+the+weight+of+the+hog+and+they'd+put+that+on+the+other+end+of+the+plank+Then+they'd+guess+the+weight+of+the+stone%22&pg=PA380#v=onepage (1953)
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“Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality. Those who have the gift of creative expression in unusually large measure disclose the meaning of the individuality of others to those others. In participating in the work of art, they become artists in their activity. They learn to know and honor individuality in whatever form it appears. The fountains of creative activity are discovered and released. The free individuality which is the source of art is also the final source of creative development in time.”

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Time and Individuality (1940)

“The revolution in scientific ideas just mentioned is primarily logical. It is due to recognition that the very method of physical science, with its primary standard units of mass, space, and time, is concerned with measurements of relations of change, not with individuals as such.”

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Time and Individuality (1940)

“Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place.”

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Experience and Nature (1925), Ch. VI: Nature, Mind and the Subject
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“It may be remarked incidentally that the recognition of the relational character of scientific objects completely eliminates an old metaphysical issue. One of the outstanding problems created by the rise of modern science was due to the fact that scientific definitions and descriptions are framed in terms of which qualities play no part. Qualities were wholly superfluous. As long as the idea persisted (an inheritance from Greek metaphysical science) that the business of knowledge is to penetrate into the inner being of objects, the existence of qualities like colors, sounds, etc., was embarrassing. The usual way of dealing with them is to declare that they are merely subjective, existing only in the consciousness of individual knowers. Given the old idea that the purpose of knowledge (represented at its best in science) is to penetrate into the heart of reality and reveal its "true" nature, the conclusion was a logical one. …The discovery of the nonscientific because of the empirically unverifiable and unnecessary character of absolute space, absolute motion, and absolute time gave the final coup de grâce to the traditional idea that solidity, mass, size, etc., are inherent possessions of ultimate individuals.”

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Time and Individuality (1940)

“As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.”

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Quoted in John Dewey and American Democracy by Robert Westbrook (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991), p. 440; cited in Understanding Power http://www.understandingpower.com/Chapter9.htm#f16| (2002) by Noam Chomsky, ch. 9, footnote 16; originally from "The Need for a New Party" (1931) by John Dewey, Later Works 6, http://books.google.com/books?id=0xPFJ2uwpbIC&lpg=PA163&ots=dd3ciwpXoJ&dq=%22shadow%20cast%22%20dewey&pg=PA163#v=onepage&q&f=false| p. 163. (Via Westbrook.)
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“The rise of new science in the seventeenth century laid hold upon general culture in the next century. The enlightenment… testified to the widespread belief that at last light had dawned, that dissipation of ignorance, superstition, and bigotry was at hand, and the triumph of reason was assured -- for reason was counterpart in man of the laws of nature which science was disclosing. The reign of law in the natural world was to be followed by the reign of law in human affairs.”

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Time and Individuality (1940)

“In the late eighteenth and the greater part of the nineteenth centuries appeared the first marked cultural shift in the attitude taken toward change. Under the names of indefinite perfectibility, progress, and evolution, the movement of things in the universe itself and of the universe as a whole began to take on a beneficent instead of hateful aspect.”

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Time and Individuality (1940)

“Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.”

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Democracy and Human Nature http://books.google.com/books?id=akasAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Democracy+means+the+belief+that+humanistic+culture+should+prevail%22&pg=PA124#v=onepage, Freedom and Culture (1939)
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“Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies.”

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The American Background http://books.google.com/books?id=akasAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Legislation+is+a+matter+of+more+or+less+intelligent+improvisation+aiming+at+palliating+conditions+by+means+of%22+%22patchwork+policies%22&pg=PA65#v=onepage, Freedom and Culture (1939)
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“Genuine time, if it exists as anything else except the measure of motions in space, is all one with the existence of individuals as individuals, with the creative, with the occurrence of unpredictable novelties. Everything that can be said contrary to this conclusion is but a reminder that an individual may lose his individuality, for individuals become imprisoned in routine and fall to the level of mechanisms. Genuine time then ceases to be an integral element of their being. Our behavior becomes predictable, because it is but an external rearrangement of what went before.”

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Time and Individuality (1940)

“The discovery that mass changes with velocity, a discovery made when minute bodies came under consideration, finally forced surrender of the notion that mass is a fixed and inalienable possession of ultimate elements or individuals, so that time is now considered to be their fourth dimension.”

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Time and Individuality (1940)

“The mystery is that the world is at it is -- a mystery that is the source of all joy and all sorrow, of all hope and fear, and the source of development both creative and degenerative. The contingency of all into which time enters is the source of pathos, comedy, and tragedy.”

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Time and Individuality (1940)

“To regiment artists, to make them servants of some particular cause does violence to the very springs of artistic creation. But it does more than that. It betrays the very cause of a better future it would serve, for in its subjugation of the individuality of the artist it annihilates the source of that which is genuinely new. Where the regimentation is successful, it would cause the future to be but a rearrangement of the past.”

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Time and Individuality (1940)

“But the individual butterfly or earthquake remains just the unique existence which it is. We forget in explaining its occurrence that it is only the occurrence that is explained, not the thing itself.”

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Time and Individuality (1940)

“Classical science was based upon the belief that it is possible to formulate both the position and velocity at one time of any given particle. It followed that knowledge of the position and velocity of a given number of particles would enable the future behavior of the whole collection to be accurately predicted. The principle of Heisenberg is that given the determination of position, its velocity can be stated only as of a certain order of probability, while if its velocity is determined the correlative factor of position can be stated only as of a certain order of probability. Both cannot be determined at once, from which it follows necessarily that the future of the whole collection cannot possibly be foretold except in terms of some order of probability.”

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Time and Individuality (1940)

“The intellect is at home in that which is fixed only because it is done and over with, for intellect is itself just as much a deposit of past life as is the matter to which it is congenial. Intuition alone articulates in the forward thrust of life and alone lays hold of reality.”

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Time and Individuality (1940)

“This idea is that laws which purport to be statements of what actually occurs are statistical in character as distinct from so-called dynamic laws that are abstract and mathematical, and disguised definitions. Recognition of the statistical nature of physical laws was first effected in the case of gases when it became evident that generalizations regarding the behavior of swarms of molecules were not descriptions or predictions of the behavior of any individual particle. A single molecule is not and cannot be a gas. It is consequently absurd to suppose that a scientific law is about the elementary constituents of a gas. It is a statement of what happens when a large number of such constituents interact with one another under certain conditions.”

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Time and Individuality (1940)

“The other conclusion is that art is the complement of science. Science as I have said is concerned wholly with relations, not with individuals. Art, on the other hand, is not only the disclosure of the individuality of the artist but also a manifestation of individuality as creative of the future, in an unprecedented response to conditions as they were in the past. Some artists in their vision of what might be, but is not, have been conscious rebels. But conscious protest and revolt is not the form which the labor of the artist in creation of the future must necessarily take. Discontent with things as they are is normally the expression of the vision of what may be and is not, art in being the manifestation of individuality is this prophetic vision.”

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Time and Individuality (1940)

“This new philosophy, however, was far from giving the temporal an inherent position and function in the constitution of things. Change was acting on the side of man but only because of fixed laws which governed the changes that take place. There was hope in change just because the laws that govern it do not change.”

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Time and Individuality (1940)

“Individuality, conceived as a temporal development involves uncertainty, indeterminacy, or contingency. Individuality is the source of whatever is unpredictable in the world.”

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Time and Individuality (1940)

“The artist in realizing his own individuality reveals potentialities hitherto unrealized. The revelation is the inspiration of other individuals to make the potentialities real, for it is not sheer revolt against things as they are which stirs human endeavor to its depth, but vision of what might be and is not. Subordination of the artists to any special cause no matter how worthy does violence not only to the artist but to the living source of a new and better future.”

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Time and Individuality (1940)

“Not til the late nineteenth century was the doctrine of the subordination of time and change seriously challenged. Bergson and William James, animated by different motives and proceeding by different methods, then installed change at the very heart of things. Bergson took his stand on the primacy of life and consciousness, which are notoriously in a state of flux. He assimilated that which is completely real in the natural world to them, conceiving the static as that which life leaves behind as a deposit as it moves on. From this point of view he criticized mechanistic and teleological theories on the ground that both are guilty of the same error, although from opposite points. Fixed laws which govern change and fixed ends toward which changes tend are both the products of a backward look, one that ignores the forward movement of life. They apply only to that which life has produced and has then left behind in its ongoing vital creative course, a course whose behavior and outcome are unpredictable both mechanistically and from the standpoint of ends.”

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Time and Individuality (1940)

“When we come to inanimate elements, the prevailing view has been that time and sequential change are entirely foreign to their nature. According to this view they do not have careers; they simply change their relations is space. We have only to think of the classic conception of atoms. The Newtonian atom, for example, moved and was moved, thus changing its position in space, but it was unchangeable in its own being. …In itself it was like a God, the same yesterday, today, and forever.”

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Time and Individuality (1940)

“Freedom of thought and of expression are not mere rights to be claimed. They have their roots deep in the existence of individuals as developing careers in time. Their denial and abrogation is an abdication of individuality and a virtual rejection of time as opportunity.”

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Time and Individuality (1940)

“The utmost possible regarding an individual is a statement as to some order of probability about the future. Heisenberg's principle has been seized upon as a basis for wild statements to the effect that the doctrine of arbitrary free will and totally uncaused activity are now scientifically substantiated. Its actual force and significance is generalization of the idea that the individual is a temporal career whose future cannot logically be deduced from its past.”

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Time and Individuality (1940)

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