Marx and Dewey on the Unity of Theory and Practice

Abstract

Marx and dewey reject the classical greek view of human life as a "festival" in which philosophical observers ("theoria") are distinguished from those involved in the actual proceedings (praxis). observers give way to pilgrims, wayfarers involved in history; to know is now to transform or remake the thing known. marx and dewey's unification of theory and practice stems from the new status given to singularity, by virtue of a theological input, in the medieval nominalist tradition. the deweyan and marxian unifications of theory and practice, in the end, cannot justify themselves in purely philosophical or metaphysical terms.