John Dewey | Democracy and Education | Philosophers Explained | Stephen Hicks

In this episode, Dr. Hicks discusses the pragmatic, democratic education theory offered in John Dewey's 1916 work: Democracy and Education. He focuses on chapters 1 & 7.
Philosophers, Explained covers major philosophers and texts, especially the great classics. In each episode, Professor Hicks discusses an important work, doing a close reading that lasts 40 minutes to an hour.
Timestamps:
00:40 The text
03:10 Definition of life: life is a self-renewing process
03:47 But it is not indefinite; life does come to an end
04:07 Continuity of the life process does not depend on any one individual
05:00 Continuity of life means continual re-adaptation of the environment
06:38 Education is the means of this social continuity of life
08:15 The importance of education to the group.
10:10 What is meant by a group?
13:08 Formal education
14:26 Dangers of formal education
17:53 Chapter 7 - democracy in education
18:52 Educational as a social function
21:35 Education is to be molded by practical reality
27:47 The democratic ideal
30:24 Democracy is more than a form of government
32:36 Dewey contrasts Platonic education to his own
38:07 Dewey rejects the "individualistic ideal"
45:38 Dewey rejects the nationalism of the Germanic model of education
51:06 Dewey reaches two brief results
Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian University in Poland.
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Thank you very much, Stephen, for the excellent Philosophy video series; Highly valuable information and masterfully presented!
Best,
-James

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Great stuff Professor, thanks for the informative and fascinating discussions.

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The 30 in the first series include:
1. Immanuel Kant
2. Plato
3. Galileo Galilei
4. Ayn Rand
5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
6. René Descartes
7. Jean-Paul Sartre
8. Socrates
9. Martin Heidegger
10. Thomas Aquinas
11. Arachne and Athena
12. Aristotle
13. Albert Camus
14. Friedrich Nietzsche
15. John Dewey
16. Sigmund Freud
17. G.W.F. Hegel
18. William James
19. Søren Kierkegaard
20. John Locke
21. Karl Marx
22. John Stuart Mill
23. Thales
24. Benito Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile
25. William Paley
26. C.S. Lewis
27. David Hume
28. John Maynard Keynes
29. Thomas Kuhn
30. George Orwell
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Thank you. There are many biased interpretations here, which is ironic considering Duey taught to suspend all biases and dogmas to deal with the problem. Kant said don't use people as a means to an end but as an end. Nietzsche then inverted it ( to play the antichrist) to mean using people as a means to an end. A lot more focus should be given to Hegel, thesis, antithesis, synthesis, and trinity, which both Duey and Marx highly borrowed from ( both were former Helgalians). Religion is community-based; Hegel used this as a collective spirit ( to oppose Kant, which is the thing in itself that can't be explained ). Duey is also using a philosophical version of the religious archetype of community. It's important to note that Hegel used it to go along with the German government > Hegel thought Germans to be of superior minds. He believed he had reached the absolute truth. Duey did not go along with the German system of education, nor Plato, where he sorted through the forms to see which students best fit certain forms. Ending with his philosophy, the king in his Republic is much more educated than a democratic one from the Duey education system. Just go on social media today; it is a schizoid sideshow attacking like a virus, thinking they are wise.
Marx encouraged everyone to critically challenge everything (Hegel's negation) to start a revolution, while Duey used thinking as a reflection for a peaceful resolution. ( synthesis) Nietzsche used individuality as an antichrist to oppose religion and community. To understand Duey, we must first understand Hegel.
It does significant damage to say that it is dead in literature. That's a Nietzsche psychosis. If one understands the great literature books, their archetype and symbols, they are about real life.

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