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Year

1917

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Hu Shi promoviert am Department of Philosophy der Columbia University unter John Dewey und Friedrich Hirth.
Hu selected two of Dewey's classes : social and political philosophy and schools of ethics. Three aspects of Dewey's teaching had a lasting impact on Hu, and were explicated in much of Hu's own writings : 1) Dewey's theory, which divided thinking into four evolutionary stages : the initial stage when beliefs were held fixed and static ; the Sophist stage where the certainty and static consistency of the previous stage was challenged ; the Socratic stage which transformed discussion into reasoning and subjective reflection into a method of proof ; and the inductive and empirical stage where thinking became research by way of the logical method. 2) Dewey's secular and instrumental approach to the study of the history of philosophy. 3) Dewey's idea of contextualism.

Mentioned People (2)

Dewey, John  (Burlington 1859-1952 New York, N.Y.) : Philosoph, Pädagoge, Psychologe

Hu, Shi  (Anhui 1891-1962 Shanghai) : Schriftsteller, Philosoph, Diplomat

Subjects

Philosophy : United States of America / Social History : Universites and Colleges

Documents (2)

# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
1 1990 Li, Moying. Hu Shi and his Deweyan reconstruction of Chinese history. (Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1990). (Diss. Boston University, 1990). S. 28. Publication / DewJ177
2 2005 China Institute and Columbia University : http://chineselectures.org/cicu.htm. Web / Colu