Full Idea
Philosophy is criticism of the influential beliefs that underlie culture, tracking them to their generating conditions and results, and considering their mutual compatibility. This terminates in a new perspective, which leads to new possibilities.
Gist of Idea
Philosophy is the study and criticsm of cultural beliefs, to achieve new possibilities
Source
John Dewey (The Later Works (17 vols, ed Boydston) [1930], 6:19), quoted by David Hildebrand - Dewey Intro
Book Reference
Hildebrand,David: 'Dewey' [One World 2008], p.1
A Reaction
[compressed] This would make quite a good manifesto for French thinkers of the 1960s. Foucault could hardly disagree. An excellent idea.