id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 40089 Dewey, John Reconstruction in Philosophy .txt text/plain 51389 2387 54 that common-sense knowledge of nature out of which science takes its future philosophy is to clarify men's ideas as to the social and moral the true principle and aim of knowledge--control of natural forces. of men to question received ideas in science and philosophy--to think philosophy by that changed conception of nature, animate and inanimate, intelligent men of olden times thought they lived was a fixed world, a means, as in modern science, origin of new forms, a mutation from an old Two things have rendered possible a new conception of experience and a is the change that has taken place in the actual nature of experience, suggest aims and methods for developing a new and improved experience. knowledge and the nature of true philosophy to the existing practice of This change of human disposition toward the world does not mean that man knowledge as the method of active control of nature and of experience. ./cache/40089.txt ./txt/40089.txt