Dewey’s view of cultural evolution is viewed as continuous with biological evolution, and of our common human adventure as taking place within a ‘community of causes and consequences in which we, together with those not born, are enmeshed’. This community, he said, is ‘the widest and deepest symbol of the mysterious totality of being the imagination calls the universe.’
Unless you share his sense that an individual life has meaning only to the extent that it is caught up in shared hope and effort, Dewey will strike you as banal, bourgeois and conformist. Unless you resonate, at least occasionally, to the Immortality Ode, he will seem weakly sentimental.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ode:_Intimations_of_Immortality
There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
The earth, and every common sight,
To me did seem
Apparelled in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream.
It is not now as it hath been of yore;—
Turn wheresoe'er I may,
By night or day,
The things which I have seen I now can see no more. (lines 1–9)
Unless you share his sense that an individual life has meaning only to the extent that it is caught up in shared hope and effort, Dewey will strike you as banal, bourgeois and conformist. Unless you resonate, at least occasionally, to the Immortality Ode, he will seem weakly sentimental.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ode:_Intimations_of_Immortality
There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
The earth, and every common sight,
To me did seem
Apparelled in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream.
It is not now as it hath been of yore;—
Turn wheresoe'er I may,
By night or day,
The things which I have seen I now can see no more. (lines 1–9)
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