[MD] David Hildebrand's Dewey

[Matt Kundert]

Ian quoted Hildebrand:
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Dewey's entreaties—that philosophy start from lived experience (practically), motivated by moral ends (meliorism)—are prescriptive but necessarily vague. They pose a challenge to professionalized philosophers, who tend to respond by demanding specifics ...
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Matt:
Which is funny, because Rorty gets made fun of for being vague.  I think the reason they are vague, even necessarily so, is because they were both attempting to create an inspirational rhetoric to replace the inspirational rhetoric Plato created.  They weren't doing work in a paradigm, they were creating a paradigm.

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