A 2023 book by Scott R. Stroud analyzes the influence of John Dewey’s philosophy on this thinker. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this thinker who sought “a bridge between Dewey and Buddhism” as one of Dewey’s students at Columbia. A conference in Lahore was canceled so that this thinker couldn’t deliver his speech “The Annihilation of Caste.”
ANSWER: B. R. Ambedkar [or Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar]
[10h] Two answers required. “The Annihilation of Caste” borrows a distinction from Dewey’s Ethics to claim that Hinduism is a “religion of” one of these concepts, but must become a “religion of” the other. Ronald Dworkin distinguished these two concepts, arguing that one of them is “all-or-nothing.”
ANSWER: rules AND principles
[10e] Stroud reads Ambedkar as a member of this intellectual tradition. Although he called his philosophy “instrumentalism,” Dewey is typically considered to be part of this tradition.
ANSWER: pragmatism [accept The Evolution of Pragmatism in India: Ambedkar, Dewey, and the Rhetoric of Reconstruction]
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