On the Ideal and Reality of Dewey's Aesthetics in Rebuilding Democratic Society

Abstract

As the last domain of Dewey's empirical philosophy of art, it is very important to understand the whole Dewey theory. Art brings the quality of experience and expresses the way of experience. The artist's creative self-realization is the paradigm for things to acquire meaning. That is, artistic experience is a public life mode, which prompts the transformation of individual life culture, and broadly refers to the civic art and moral art of human participation in democratic culture. Dewey's view of art shows his great verve towards real life. He shows that only when the overall quality of human beings is improved, and when art becomes an effective way to build community experience, can a truly democratic society be realized.