 | John Dewey - 1981 - 778 pages
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 | K. J. Gergen - 1982 - 282 pages
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 | Maurice Wohlgelernter - 1993 - 428 pages
...acknowledgment of novelty and unpredictability as indigenous to the history of nature. Dewey states that "Man finds himself living in an aleatory world; his...Although persistent, they are sporadic, episodic." Still, when faced with this extremely open and even perilous version of nature, Dewey calls upon philosophy... | |
 | James Campbell - 1995 - 328 pages
...aleatory world," Dewey writes; "his existence involves, to put it baldly, a gamble." He continues: The world is a scene of risk; it is uncertain, unstable,...Although persistent, they are sporadic, episodic. . . . Plague, famine, failure of crops, disease, death, defeat in battle, are always just around the... | |
 | Mike Hawkins - 1997 - 360 pages
...of the self was a central feature of Dewey's thinking about human existence. 'Man', he wrote, 'lives in an aleatory world; his existence involves, to put...and seasons. Although persistent, they are sporadic, episodic.'55 '1 There is an illuminating analysis of Dewey's interest in Darwinism in David Sidorsky's... | |
 | Stephen M. Fishman, Lucille Parkinson McCarthy - 1998 - 274 pages
...democratic society and his recognition of the changing nature of our world. Life is a gamble, he once wrote. "The world is a scene of risk: it is uncertain, unstable, uncannily unstable" (Experience and Nature 38). With this in mind, Dewey wants students to develop the habit of intelligent,... | |
 | Winfried Fluck - 1999 - 404 pages
...connotations connected with contingency that he criticizes in modern philosophy: "The world," he states, "is a scene of risk; it is uncertain, unstable, uncannily...not to be counted upon as to their times and seasons ... Plague, famine, failure of crops, disease, death, defeat in battle, are always around the corner,... | |
 | Cesare De Marchi - 2000 - 274 pages
...UNA CROCIERA A Sebastian è dedicato questo libro, incominciato in sua attesa e concimo vicino a lui Man finds himself living in an aleatory world; his...risk; it is uncertain, unstable, uncannily unstable. JOHN DEWEY, Experience and Nature, il Vidi che lì non s'acquetava il core. DANTE, Purgatorio, XIX... | |
 | Terry Hoy - 2000 - 172 pages
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Man," he writes in an eloquent passage, "finds himself living in an aleatory world; his existence involves, to put it baldly, a gamble. The world is a scene of risk; it is uncertain, unstable, uncannily unstable. Its dangers are irregular, inconstant,... 
