Temeljne značajke Deweyeva metodološkog pristupa političkoj teoriji
Fundamental determinants of Dewey's Approach to the Methodology of Political Theory

Summary/Abstract: The author presents an extract from an extensive study of Dewey’s poli¬tical philosophy. He emphasises that Dewey approaches political philosophy and political science from his general philosophy of experimental instru¬mentalism. It is characteristic for Dewey that he does not divide po¬litical philosophy from political sci¬ence, in sense that philosophy deals with the sphere of values and science with the sphere of facts. The political facts are themselves of such a nature that the value aspect is inherent to them. Political philosophy and poli¬tical science can be seen only as a constitutive part of a larger whole, i.e. of a general theory (or science) of human nature. Dewey especially attacks all the essentialistic (ontolo- gistic) and aprioristic doctrines of politics and political. Every attempt to theorise about politics should be led by the standards of factual veri¬fication and all the postulated ends should be seen from the perspective of the means of their realization. The experimentalism here as elsewhere is the central motive of Dewey’s undertaking in philosophy.

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