Dewey, Eros and Education
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We are attracted by our heart's desires. In love we passionately desire to possess the good, or at least what we perceive to be the good. But what we seek soon comes to possess us in thought, feeling, and action. It becomes who we are, the content of our character. In this paper I want to talk about education and Eros. I want to talk about Eros as a creative poetic force that makes new meanings and makes us who we are. I desire to reopen a conversation about what it means to educate for wisdom, that is, to teach the passions to desire the good. The field of education would be better off if it would turn to a more robust philosophy of everyday life that emphasizes the emotions, the imagination, and disciplined moral action. Such an education is largely creative and aesthetic. It is precisely the kind of education that Dewey's philosophy of Eros seems to make possible. We will begin with philosophy or the love of wisdom. Dewey understood wisdom as follows:
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