What can American philosophy do in the age of globalization?
Today, in spite of circumstances of tension and conflict among different cultures, both within and without national boundaries, the world is unified in a global market and national boundaries are blurred. Any nave assumption about the understanding other cultures plainly will not work. Even the politics of recognition faces the danger of being assimilated into the unifying force of globalization. We need, in such circumstances, to question once again our relationship with our own culture and nation, while at the same time reconsidering what it means to understand other cultures. Deweys idea of democracy as a way of life, an idea based upon the principle of mutual learning as friends (Dewey, 1988), and its application for mutual national understanding (Dewey, 1983), is not its exception. Dewey once said that philosophy, as the general theory of education, is involved in the formation of fundamental dispositions, intellectual and emotional, toward nature and fellow-men (Dewey, 1980, p. 3
