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John Dewey in Transition from Religious Idealism to the Social Ethic of Democracy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

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John Dewey's first academic appointment was to the department of philosophy at the University of Michigan where he taught from 1884-1894. Toward the end of that period he became engaged in an arduous re-examination of his whole philosophical outlook. One aspect of this process was a transition from a position of religious idealism to the social ethic of democracy. We wish to call attention to two papers in this early phase of Dewey's career which indicate this shift: “Christianity and Democracy” (1893) and “The Ethics of Democracy” (1888).

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Copyright © 1965, University of Pittsburgh Press 

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Notes

1. With the exception of a year's teaching at the University of Minnesota in 1888-1889.Google Scholar

2. Dykhuizen, George, “John Dewey and the University of Michigan,Journal of the History of Ideas, XXIII, 4 (October-December, 1962), 517.Google Scholar

3. Ibid., 52-521.Google Scholar

4. Dewey, John, “Christianity and Democracy,” in Religious Thought at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1893), 6069.Google Scholar

5. Ibid., 61.Google Scholar

6. Ibid. Google Scholar

7. Ibid., 66.Google Scholar

8. Ibid., 67.Google Scholar

9. His mature statement on the subject is contained in Dewey, John, A Common Faith (New Haven, 1934).Google Scholar

10. Dewey, John, The Ethics of Democracy University of Michigan Philosophical Papers, Second Ser., 1 (Ann Arbor, 1888), 26.Google Scholar

11. Ibid. Google Scholar