The Experience in the Existential World, According to Dewey
This bibliographic study aims to clarify Dewey’s understanding of existence as a natural instance where the experiences of organisms found there in a permanent transaction occur. Natural existence is the world of fragility, unpredictability, contingencies, due to the conflict of opposing forces, who...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2019 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) |
| Repository: | Educação & Realidade |
| Language: | Portuguese English |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:seer.ufrgs.br:article/91397 |
| Online Access: | https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/educacaoerealidade/article/view/91397 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Existência Experiência Vida Natureza Educação Existence Experience Life Nature Education |
| Summary: | This bibliographic study aims to clarify Dewey’s understanding of existence as a natural instance where the experiences of organisms found there in a permanent transaction occur. Natural existence is the world of fragility, unpredictability, contingencies, due to the conflict of opposing forces, whose energy sustains the conservation or deterioration of life, reason for the unworthiness of experience. Among the elements that make up nature in the scope of life are humans, who, having the ability to develop investigative and reflective thinking, and favored by their plastic nature, can rise to the level of improvement in social existence, particularly through education. |
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