“An empirical philosophy is in any case a kind of intellectual disrobing. We cannot permanently divest ourselves of the intellectual habits we take on and wear when we assimilate the culture of our own time and place. But intelligent furthering of culture demands that we take some of them off, that we inspect them critically to see what they are made of and what wearing them does to us. We cannot achieve recovery of primitive naïveté. But there is attainable a cultivated naïveté of eye, ear and thought.”
Quote by John Dewey
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The Later Works of John Dewey, Volume 1: 1925, Experience and Nature
This volume is the first in a series of works by the American philosopher John Dewey, published in 1925. It includes essays that delve into Dewey's theories on experience and its connection to the natural world, reflecting his ongoing philosophical inquiry into the nature of knowledge and reality. more
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John Dewey
John Dewey was an American philosopher and educator, born on October 20, 1859, and died on June 1, 1952. He was a leading figure in the philosophy of pragmatism and had a profound impact on 20th-century education, philosophy, and the social sciences. more
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