The Experience in the Existential World, According to Dewey

Abstract

This bibliographic study aims to clarify Dewey’s understanding of existence as a natural instance where the experiences of organisms found there in a permanent transaction occur. Natural existence is the world of fragility, unpredictability, contingencies, due to the conflict of opposing forces, whose energy sustains the conservation or deterioration of life, reason for the unworthiness of experience. Among the elements that make up nature in the scope of life are humans, who, having the ability to develop investigative and reflective thinking, and favored by their plastic nature, can rise to the level of improvement in social existence, particularly through education.