John Dewey has pointed out that the unity of aesthetics and ethics is in fact reflected in our understanding of behaviour being " fair "-the word having a double meaning of attractive and morally acceptable.

Other utilitarian-type views include the claims that the end of action is survival and growth, as in evolutionary ethics ( the 19th-century English philosopher Herbert Spencer ); the experience of power, as in despotism ( the 16th-century Italian political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli and the 19th-century German Friedrich Nietzsche ); satisfaction and adjustment, as in pragmatism ( 20th-century American philosophers Ralph Barton Perry and John Dewey ); and freedom, as in existentialism ( the 20th-century French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre ).

The Dewey Decimal Classification ( DDC ), or Dewey Decimal System, is a proprietary library classification system created by Melvil Dewey in 1876.

A designation number, such as Dewey 16 for the 16th edition, is given for each revision.

The structure of the schedules is such that subjects close to each other in a dictionary catalog are dispersed in the Dewey schedules ( for example, architecture of Chicago quite separate from geography of Chicago ).

This is a lesson from both Montessori and Dewey.

Education according to Dewey is the “ participation of the individual in the social consciousness of the race ” ( Dewey, 1897, para.

It conceives the school as a place where certain information is to be given, where certain lessons are to be learned, or where certain habits are to be formed ” ( Dewey, 1897, para.

17 ) Dewey felt that as education is a social construct, it is therefore a part of society and should reflect the community.

Education is the process of living and is not meant to be the preparation of future living ( Dewey, 1897 ), so school must represent the present life.

Furthermore, he feels that “ progress is not in the succession of studies but in the development of new attitudes towards, and new interests in, experience ” ( Dewey, 1897, para.

Dewey believes that “ education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness ; and that the adjustment of individual activity on the basis of this social consciousness is the only sure method of social reconstruction ” ( Dewey, 1897, para.

* The Library Hotel in New York City, is unique in that each of its ten floors is assigned one category from the Dewey Decimal System.

Huey, Dewey, and Louie are the sons of Donald's sister Della Duck ; in Donald's Nephews, their mother is instead named Dumbella.

It wasn't until the 1980s when it became established that Huey is dressed in red, Dewey in blue, and Louie in green.

Disney's archivist Dave Smith, in " Disney A to Z ," said, " Note that the brightest hue of the three is red ( Huey ), the color of water, dew, is blue ( Dewey ), and that leaves Louie, and leaves are green.

The Dewey decimal system covers religion in the 200 range, with books on " Religious mythology & social theology " a subset listed under 201.

The failure of the system to catch on in North America was partly because of its internal deficiencies but also because the Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress systems were already well established.

In 1879, Peirce was appointed Lecturer in logic at the new Johns Hopkins University, which was strong in a number of areas that interested him, such as philosophy ( Royce and Dewey did their PhDs at Hopkins ), psychology ( taught by G. Stanley Hall and studied by Joseph Jastrow, who coauthored a landmark empirical study with Peirce ), and mathematics ( taught by J. J. Sylvester, who came to admire Peirce's work on mathematics and logic ).

#* appears on the Buffalo Springfield album Last Time Around but features no members of the band other than Neil Young and drummer Dewey Martin

Beginning in 1897 Dewey published a summary of his theory on progressive education in School Journal.

By the time Dewey moved to Chicago at the age of thirty-five, he had already published two books on psychology and applied psychology.

* Goddard College-A progressive college founded on the ideals and work of John Dewey.

* Sarah Lawrence College-a private, independent, co-educational liberal arts college founded on the principles of John Dewey.

Dewey on Education, edited by Martin Dworkin.

In a highly negative review of the book, Dewey wrote a series of articles in The Social Frontier which began by applauding Hutchins ' attack on " the aimlessness of our present educational scheme.

John Dewey ( 1859-1952 ) had a major influence on the development of progressive education in the United States.

Huey, Dewey, and Louie were created by Ted Osborne and Al Taliaferro, and first appeared in a newspaper comic strip on October 17, 1937.

In the theatrical shorts, Huey, Dewey, and Louie often behave in a rambunctious manner, sometimes committing retaliation or revenge on their uncle Donald Duck.

In early comic books and shorts, the caps of Huey, Dewey, and Louie were colored randomly, depending on the whim of the colorist.

Dewey, on the other hand, believed the public was not only capable of understanding the issues created or responded to by the elite, it was in the public forum that decisions should be made after discussion and debate.

Dewey believed journalists should do more than simply pass on information.

During that time Dewey also initiated the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, where he was able to actualize the pedagogical beliefs that provided material for his first major work on education, The School and Social Progress ( 1899 ).

While each of these works focuses on one particular philosophical theme, Dewey included his major themes in most of what he published.

Reflecting his immense influence on 20th-century thought, Hilda Neatby, in 1953, wrote " Dewey has been to our age what Aristotle was to the later middle ages, not a philosopher, but the philosopher.

While still professor of philosophy at Michigan, Dewey and his junior colleagues, James Hayden Tufts and George Herbert Mead, together with his student James Rowland Angell, all influenced strongly by the recent publication of William James ' Principles of Psychology ( 1890 ), began to reformulate psychology, emphasizing the social environment on the activity of mind and behaviour rather than the physiological psychology of Wundt and his followers.

Miles Dewey Davis was born on May 26, 1926, to an affluent African American family in Alton, Illinois.

Originally based on the Dewey Decimal Classification, the UDC was developed as a new analytico-synthetic classification system with a significantly larger vocabulary and syntax that enables very detailed content indexing and information retrieval in large collections.

Dewey denied categorically that there was anything like intrinsic values and he held the same position in regard to moral values -- moral values was also based on a learning process ; they were never " intrinsic " either absolutely or relativist.

** A. Peter Dewey, first American casualty in Vietnam

Also, 2005's Fatal Crossroads: A Novel of Vietnam 1945 is based on Dewey's time and death in Vietnam and written by journalist and Dewey family friend Seymour Topping.

* Bio and links to PDF's of documents surrounding A. Peter Dewey First American MIA in Vietnam.

* A. Peter Dewey ( 1916-September 26, 1945 ), shot by accident by Viet Minh troops on September 26, 1945, the first American casualty in the Vietnam War.

Revenue Cutter McCulloch served under George Dewey in the Battle of Manila during the Spanish-American War, and Coast Guard Cutter McCulloch served in World War II and the Vietnam War.

Assigned to Vietnam, First Lieutenant Fox's actions in Quang Tri Province during Operation Dewey Canyon on February 22, 1969 earned him the Medal of Honor.

Vietnam Veterans against the War stages operation Dewey Canyon III.