La verdad en tiempos de guerra. Una ilustración del consecuencialismo de John Dewey
This contribution tries to show the stance of the pragmatist philosopher John Dewey on the role of truth and public reason in United States during the First World War. The analysis takes as its starting point some Dewey’s reflections published during that war period. In his response to the war propa...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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TELEMME - UMR 6570
2013-06-01
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| Series: | Amnis |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/amnis/2001 |
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| Summary: | This contribution tries to show the stance of the pragmatist philosopher John Dewey on the role of truth and public reason in United States during the First World War. The analysis takes as its starting point some Dewey’s reflections published during that war period. In his response to the war propaganda spread in United States by the Committee on Public Information, Dewey anticipates some of the negative consequences of propaganda persuasion for the intervening nations in the Treaty of Versailles. Dewey meditates on the difficulties to keep the normative standard of truth and consequentialist rationality not only in the course of a war, but also in subsequent years: specific aspects of war as it were propaganda and censorship, the cultivation of the irrationality under the layer of the rigor, the camouflage of individual, economic or class interests under the cloak of patriotism and the will to humiliate the adversary nation under the pretext of doing justice, converge in a socio-political dynamics of falsehood and irrationality whose consequences extend beyond the signing of the peace treaties. |
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| ISSN: | 1764-7193 |