Dewey discards the metaphysical and substitutes the love of society and advocates a positivistic pragmatism which gives account of all sides of experience. Pragmatism is presented as the philosophic counterpart of democracy. After the World War, Pragmatism grew into a social philosophy. Pragmatists have applied their doctrine to every phase of social theory. Dewey made theory and living identical and applied his philosophy to economic, political, and pedagogical questions.
Reality is declared to be changing, growing, developing in things.
A real philosophy, according to Dewey, must abandon absolute origins and finalities and explore specific values in practical, moral, and social life. Man continues to change his ideas until they work. Dewey's philosophy is an immanentist philosophy of humanity itself in its progressive evolution toward ever better forms. All Rights Reserved.