J. Dewey 의 종합적 사고의 형성 배경 = The Formative Background of J. Dewey`s Idea of Unification

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It seems to be not easy that we rightly understand J. Dewey`s thoughts without grasping his central idea, because his writings are various and abundant in so many fields. If we could call his thoughts as the philosophy of experience, its core would be his idea of unification or symthesis. The idea is widespread over his whole thoughts and so plays a role as the inportant principle of his theoretical expansion. Under these assumed premises, the purpose of this article is to pursue which his idea of unification was generated from, and to study how it was reflected in his thoughts. The result of this study says that Dewey`s notion of unification was generated from two inflences at large. For the first time, the basis of the idea was taken shape from his natural mind which was formed through his peaceful boyhood life, and the necessity of the harmony which was demanded in the social condition at the time when Dewey`s development of thoughts was prosperous. In the second place, the idea seemed to be built up by being influenced from Darwinism in which all living things were regarded as interactive or organic unity and Hegelianism in which the developmental process of the world was explained with the dialectic logic. This synthetic worldview was the claim requiring the serious change for the western philosophy in which was full of some dualism. He applied this idea to interpretation of all the problem that is the philosophical, social, educational, and so on.