Pragmatism and Decolonial Thinking: an Analysis of Dewey´s Ethnocentrism

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 comp...

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Autor: Margutti, Paulo
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2013
País:Brasil
Recursos:Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP)
Repositório:Cognitio (São Paulo. Online)
Idioma:inglês
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/16598
Acesso em linha:https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/cognitiofilosofia/article/view/16598
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Decolonial thinking
Anthropos
Humanitas
Kant
Dewey
Racism.
Pensamento descolonial
Racismo
Etnocentrismo.
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Resumo: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.