The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 1998-07-01
- Publisher
- Indiana Univ Pr
- Retrieved
- Apr 24, 2012
- ISBN
- ZIgn5l73hm
1 meme from this reference
It is Wrong to Compare Man's Pettiness to the Majesty of the Universe
It has become a cheap intellectual pastime to contrast the infinitesimal pettiness of man with the vastnesses of the stellar universes. Yet all such comparisons are illicit. We cannot compare existence and meaning; they are disparate. The characteristic life of a man is itself the meaning of vast stretches of…