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On Prophecy and Critical Intelligence

On Prophecy and Critical Intelligence e ddie s . g laude, Jr. / Princeton u niversity I. t the heart of John d ewey’s philosophy lays a romantic impulse—a vision in which the moral imagination plays a crucial role in our efforts A to become who we hope to be as we engage a perilous world. m y view of romanticism is much like that of r ichard r orty’s: that romanticism itself is “the thesis of the priority of imagination over reason—the claim that reason can only follow paths that the imagination has broken.” o f course, d ewey acknowledged the importance of the imagination. i n Democracy and Education, for example, he wrote that “imagination is as much a normal and integral part of human activity as is muscular movement.” We see its role in his 1932 Ethics as the inferential dimension of inquiry, where he holds off Kant’s worry about the self-indulgent implications of the imagination run amuck. d ewey is no r ousseau. b ut, for the purposes of this essay, i want to think about d ewey’s view of imagination a bit differently—not in its tradi- tional setting, but as a locus for a certain view of “the prophetic”: http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Journal of Theology & Philosophy University of Illinois Press

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e ddie s . g laude, Jr. / Princeton u niversity I. t the heart of John d ewey’s philosophy lays a romantic impulse—a vision in which the moral imagination plays a crucial role in our efforts A to become who we hope to be as we engage a perilous world. m y view of romanticism is much like that of r ichard r orty’s: that romanticism itself is “the thesis of the priority of imagination over reason—the claim that reason can only follow paths that the imagination has broken.” o f course, d ewey acknowledged the importance of the imagination. i n Democracy and Education, for example, he wrote that “imagination is as much a normal and integral part of human activity as is muscular movement.” We see its role in his 1932 Ethics as the inferential dimension of inquiry, where he holds off Kant’s worry about the self-indulgent implications of the imagination run amuck. d ewey is no r ousseau. b ut, for the purposes of this essay, i want to think about d ewey’s view of imagination a bit differently—not in its tradi- tional setting, but as a locus for a certain view of “the prophetic”:

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American Journal of Theology & Philosophy – University of Illinois Press

Published: Sep 21, 2011

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