Teoría de la valoración (Biblioteca De Ensayo: Serie Menor)

by John Dewey, María Luisa Balseiro (Translator)

¿Cómo valorar los actos? ¿Cómo valorar los propios sistemas de valoración? Pocas cuestiones más importantes e intrincadas ha podido plantear la filosofía. De su contestación depende la mayor o menor satisfacción que el hombre pueda encontrar en la vida, o sea, su felicidad. La densa e iluminadora Teoría de la valoración, de John Dewey, uno de los clásicos de la filosofía norteamericana, es el fruto final de años de indagación. En ella el autor aclara qué se ha de entender por «valoración», con qué otros términos y realidades se relaciona, y sobre qué fundamento se debe levantar todo sistema de valoración que aspire a ser válido. Para conseguir ese objetivo, Dewey piensa que se ha de atender a los factores naturales y culturales de la conducta, superar la creencia de que el «mundo de los hechos» y el «ámbito de los valores» están separados, y avanzar, en suma, hacia la conciliación de lo emocional y lo racional.

164 pages, Paperback

Published February 8, 2008

About the author

John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. Dewey, along with Charles Sanders Peirce and William James, is recognized as one of the founders of the philosophy of pragmatism and of functional psychology. He was a major representative of the progressive and progressive populist philosophies of schooling during the first half of the 20th century in the USA.

In 1859, educator and philosopher John Dewey was born in Burlington, Vermont. He earned his doctorate at Johns Hopkins University in 1884. After teaching philosophy at the University of Michigan, he joined the University of Chicago as head of a department in philosophy, psychology and education, influenced by Darwin, Freud and a scientific outlook. He joined the faculty of Columbia University in 1904. Dewey's special concern was reform of education. He promoted learning by doing rather than learning by rote. Dewey conducted international research on education, winning many academic honors worldwide. Of more than 40 books, many of his most influential concerned education, including My Pedagogic Creed (1897), Democracy and Education (1902) and Experience and Education (1938). He was one of the founders of the philosophy of pragmatism. A humanitarian, he was a trustee of Jane Addams' Hull House, supported labor and racial equality, and was at one time active in campaigning for a third political party. He chaired a commission convened in Mexico City in 1937 inquiring into charges made against Leon Trotsky during the Moscow trials. Raised by an evangelical mother, Dewey had rejected faith by his 30s. Although he disavowed being a "militant" atheist, when his mother complained that he should be sending his children to Sunday school, he replied that he had gone to Sunday School enough to make up for any truancy by his children. As a pragmatist, he judged ideas by the results they produced. As a philosopher, he eschewed an allegiance to fixed and changeless dogma and superstition. He belonged to humanist societies, including the American Humanist Association. D. 1952.