John Dewey When Charles Darwin Essay

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This understanding could be tested and verified, as well as communicated to others. In addition to biology, other disciplines adopted this process, including philosophy, and now are consumed by its principles; and one of its overriding principles is the idea of constant criticism. Dewey stated that criticism's value lay in the fact that "it continuously provides the instruments for the criticism of those values - whether of beliefs, institutions, actions, or products - that are found in all aspects of experience." (Dewey, Experience and Nature, ix) Criticism provides the tools for an individual to remain honest about what they know and understand, and not to fall into the trap of systemic dogma, or improvable beliefs.


Ultimately Charles Darwin broke humanity free of its self-imposed restrictions of thought and opened it up to the endless possibilities of a random universe. Darwin's idea that changes in species could be caused by chance destroyed the idea of a universal plan, and without a plan to try to understand, humanity can now try to understand the universe as it really is. Humans can now rely on their own experiences as the basis for their knowledge of the universe, and we have now created a system which allow for theorizing, experimenting, and proving.

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