Pragmatism and Decolonial Thinking: an Analysis of Dewey´s Ethnocentrism
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Decolonial thinking, Anthropos, Humanitas, Kant, Dewey, Racism.Abstract
On the basis of Walter Mignolo´s and Nishitani Osamu´s ideas, the present text intends to verify to what extent John Dewey´s thought is affected by what MIgnolo calls the colonial matrix of power and the rhetoric of modernity, as well as by Osamu´s distinction between anthropos and humanitas. A comparison with Kant´s anthropological ideas is made, leading to the conclusion that both Authors allowed their respective philosophies to be contaminated by racist biases.Metrics
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2013-09-12
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Margutti, P. (2013). Pragmatism and Decolonial Thinking: an Analysis of Dewey´s Ethnocentrism. Cognitio: Revista De Filosofia, 14(1), 63–83. Retrieved from https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/cognitiofilosofia/article/view/16598
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Papers on Pragmatism