My Favourite Philosophers

John Dewey is important because he points at an “intellectual fallacy” which had and has an enormous impact on our culture. This “intellectual fallacy” can be explained as the approach in which things are only real in so far as they can be “thinkable”. Or put in other words, the real aspect of things is the cognitive part of it. This means that the more abstract we conceive something, the more real it is. All feeling, value and beauty are only real when it is thinkable.

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