THE FORMAL RECONCILIATION BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE: A PROBLEMATIZATION OF THE PRAGMATIC CONCEPTION

• Autor(a) principal: Konzen, José Oto
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Observatório
• Texto Completo: https://sistemas.uft.edu.br/periodicos/index.php/observatorio/article/view/5126
• topic: John Dewey; Richard Rorty; theory and practice; John Dewey; Richard Rorty; theory and practice; John Dewey; Richard Rorty; teoría y práctica; John Dewey; Richard Rorty; teoría y práctica; John Dewey; Richard Rorty; teoria e prática; John Dewey; Richard Rorty; teoria e prática

The text criticizes the logical structure of the pragmatic enterprise by problematizing it historically and philosophically. It is part of the observation that in recent decades, in contemporary culture in general and in educational culture in particular, a growing lack of prestige has been affirmed in relation to the theory and a call to the valuation of practice, well characterized by the use of expressions the "theory is another!" and "practice is better than grammar!" The analysis is developed from the dialogue with two authors of the American pragmatic and neopragmatic tradition : the philosophical-educational project of John Dewey, and in a complementary way with Richard Rorty, who radicalizes the pragmatic positioning through the absolutization of historical contingency, so that the main function of philosophy results in a critique of the principles and philosophical categories remaining in the culture.