Platão e Aristóteles na filosofia da matemática

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

A poética do espetáculo: uma análise dos procedimentos dramáticos nos sonetos de Florbela Espanca

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Da agudeza às metáforas: romances de Antônio da Fonseca Soares

Pós-graduação em Letras - FCLAS

O homem e o desenvolvimento humano nos discursos de Aristóteles e John Dewey

Pós-graduação em Educação Escolar - FCLAR

Ética e trabalho: Concepção de uma antítese social

Pós-graduação em Serviço Social - FCHS

A metáfora fundamental do discurso de John Dewey

This work aims to identify the rootmetaphor of John Dewey’s philosophical and educational discourse, by means of rhetorical analyses parameters. This methodology is founded in Aristotle and in the works of Chaïm Perelman and other contemporary authors involved in the revision of Aristotelian philosophy. The article examines the essays “The philosophical work of Herbert Spencer” and “The influence of darwinism on philosophy”, published by John Dewey respectively in 1904 e 1909. They were written in the early years of Dewey in Columbia University, which intellectual environment was not dominated by Pragmatism, and for this reason they can be considered seminal in the structuring of the author’s arguments. The analysis reveals that Dewey is favorable to Darwinian evolutionism thesis and opposite to Spencer’s one. This positioning suggests that Dewey’s discourse is bound to the metaphor “undetermined route” because it situates evolution as a process devoid of previously listed purposes at a pre-determined plan, subject only to the relations that are established, so unpredictable, between organisms and the environmental conditions that surround. Analyzing Dewey’s ideas about education, the article concludes that “undetermined route” is the rootmetaphor of Dewey’s discourse, hypothesis that can contribute to discuss Dewey in the context of contemporary philosophy.