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Full Idea
'God' represents a unification of ideal values that is essentially imaginative in origin.
Gist of Idea
'God' is an imaginative unity of ideal values
Source
John Dewey (The Later Works (17 vols, ed Boydston) [1930], 9:29), quoted by David Hildebrand - Dewey 7 'Construct'
Book Ref
Hildebrand,David: 'Dewey' [One World 2008], p.198
A Reaction
This seems to have happened when a flawed God like Zeus is elevated to be the only God, and is given supreme power and wisdom.