Vol. 44 No. 1 (2024)
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Cooperative Inquiry and Growth as Moral End: The Place of Pluralism within John Dewey´s Idea of Democracy

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  • Livio Mattarollo
Livio Mattarollo
Centro de Investigaciones en Filosofía, Universidad Nacional de La Plata / Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36446/af.e957

Published 2024-05-07

Keywords

  • Growth,
  • Democracy,
  • Inquiry,
  • Moral End,
  • Pluralism
  • Crecimiento,
  • Democracia,
  • Investigación,
  • Fin moral,
  • Pluralismo
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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to evaluate Robert Talisse’s criticism to John Dewey’s notion of democracy according to which the latter would be incompatible with rawlsian reasonable pluralism and would become oppressive because it is based on the moral ideal of growth. In order to achieve this goal, Talisse’s objection is reconstructed. Then, Dewey’s main arguments to support democracy —namely, experimentalist and formative arguments— are considered. Ultimately, it is argued that in Dewey’s terms, both ideas of democracy as cooperative social inquiry and growth as moral end give room to pluralism on own right.

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