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A review of Victor Kestenbaum, 2002. The Grace and the Severity of the Ideal: John Dewey and the Transcendent. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press

The quest for transcendence in Dewey’s pragmatism, or, the view not held

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  1. Work, let us say, from the 1900s and beyond.

  2. In his Contributions to a Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology.

  3. Mw.12.124.

  4. Dewey lw7.273, Theory of the Moral Life.

  5. Dewey: Page mw.5.378.

  6. Dewey lw 7.273. Theory of the Moral Life.

  7. Dewey, Page mw. 12.154.

  8. Dewey lw 7.273, Theory of the Moral Life.

  9. Dewey mw.12.148.

  10. Dewey, lw8.83.

  11. Note too that Kestenbaum seems to identify being seeable and touchable with being empirically verifiable, but in fact many things, for example, general laws in physics, are intangible, but nevertheless empirically verifiable, a fact recognized in Dewey’s empiricism.

  12. Dewey, lw3.5. “Philosophy and Civilization.”

  13. Lwl .28, Experience and Nature.

  14. Mw.11.343 Syllabus of Eight Lectures on ‘Problems of Philosophic Reconstruction’.

  15. Dewey, lw3.50.

  16. Ew3.339 Fundamental Ethical Notions: The Source and Nature of Obligation.

  17. mw.14.178.

  18. nw.14.178.

  19. mw.14.178.

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McCarthy, C.L. A review of Victor Kestenbaum, 2002. The Grace and the Severity of the Ideal: John Dewey and the Transcendent. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Stud Philos Educ 26, 345–362 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11217-007-9041-7

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