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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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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
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4. Dewey, John, “Christianity and Democracy,” in Religious Thought at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1893), 60–69.Google Scholar
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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
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