ISSN: 2265-6294

The Political Impact of Culture According to John Dewey’s View

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Ahmed Abdel-Karim Abdel-Wahhab,Zahra Abdel-Baqi Abdel-Razzaq

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According to the American philosopher and thinker John Dewey (1859-1952 AD), culture has an instrumental role in building a democratic state. He made in his political thought of culture a significant impact on the whole educational, pedagogical and educative determinants within his political thought. Dewey created in the comprehensiveness of his political thought and made a link between culture and freedom with democracy, power and state-building patterns that ideologize the political thought he advocated. He made it a theory of his views in respect of modern American political culture. It is the culture that made Dewey one of the figures of the political intellectual as he defined political culture, intellectual freedom, democracy and power, and their impact on building the state and progressing society, the latent form in presenting his entire moral view of political thought. For Dewey, culture is a pattern determined by the ideological form of the thinker, the intellectual, the student and the learner simultaneously.

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