Freud and Dewey on the nature of man by Morton Levitt

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We are immediately beset by difficulty, however, for while enumeration is a simple procedure, citation requires a somewhat more elaborate documentation. Plato provides an excellent case in point. White’s scholarly book tracing the source of Dewey’s instrumentalism makes a single men­ tion of Plato, and then in reference to George Morris rather than Dewey. ”6 This leaves the reader with two alternatives. The first is the assumption that Plato’s work exerted little or no influence upon Dewey; while the second possibility is that the great Grecian’s work was so epochal as to have influenced all sub­ sequent philosophical endeavours.

Dewey’s application in his last year at the University brought him a membership in Phi Beta Kappa, but no promising job prospects. After a period of school teaching, he returned to Burlington and resumed an informal rela­ tionship with Professor Torrey. Under his tutelage, Dewey began independent reading in the classics of philosophy. It was at this time that he became aware of the journal en­ titled, Speculative Philosophy, edited by W. T. Harris. Har­ ris’ focus on the philosophy of Hegel and Schelling inter­ ested Dewey greatly and for the first time, he began to think of the teaching of philosophy as a career.

19. , p. 22. Jerom e Nathanson, John Dewey: The Reconstruction o f the Democratic Life (New York: Scribners, 1951), p. 11. George P. Adams and W. P. Montague, Contemporary American Philosophy, Vol. , 1930), p. 24. P. A. Schilpp, op. , p. 26. , p. 28. , p. 36. , p. 43. , p. xiv. C hapter III SIGMUND FREUD Sigmund Freud was not eager to help would-be biogra­ phers. As indicated before, the so-called Autobiographical Study dealt mainly with other things, and he gave little succor to biographers who attempted to reconstruct in out­ line form the major events of his life, the interesting cor­ respondence with Wittels1 serving as an example here.

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