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Pragmatic And Dialectic Conceptions Of Methodology For Inquiries Into Freedom And Their Implications For Education, Richard John Gallo

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Many of the controversies going on in the world today are concerned with the problem of freedom. Issues involving freedom are important in the fields of theology, law, government, labor, philosophy, and education. For example, in assessing the ideological climate of the world, the standard of freedom is the measure used by many western political observers to demarcate the totalitarian from the free; the emergence of the nations is often defended in theory by appealing to the right of a people freely to determine themselves; the prevailing vitality of the Negro movement is America is a manifestation of a determination …