Ambedkar extended Dewey’s associated life into a demand that democracy pervade all social spheres

Evidence

Ambedkar’s main concern was to privilege and legalise “constitutional morality” over the traditional, social morality of the caste system. Speaking in the Constituent Assembly on 4 November 1948, he said, “Constitutional morality is not a natural sentiment. It has to be cultivated. We must realise that our people have yet to learn it. Democracy in India is only a top-dressing on an Indian soil which is essentially undemocratic.” — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 109 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Ambedkar derived his ideal society directly from Dewey’s Democracy and Education.; Ambedkar sought to replace caste social morality with cultivated constitutional morality — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 109

Related

• Ambedkar sought to replace caste social morality with cultivated constitutional morality (similarity 0.91)
• Ambedkar derived his ideal society directly from Dewey’s Democracy and Education. (similarity 0.89)
• Ambedkar proposes state-certified, non-hereditary priesthood as a reform. (similarity 0.88)
• Ambedkar proposed replacing caste with liberty, equality, and fraternity (similarity 0.87)
• Ambedkar drew directly from Dewey’s Democracy and Education for AoC (similarity 0.87)
• Ambedkar turned Dewey’s associated living into a tool demanding democracy beyond politics (similarity 0.85)
• Ambedkar formulated caste as a unique enclosed endogamous class under Dewey’s tutelage. (similarity 0.80)
• Ambedkar declared caste inequality must be rooted out, not merely untouchability (similarity 0.79)
• Ambedkar pursued both revolution and constitutionalism, leaving an unresolved tension (similarity 0.79)
• Ambedkar prized universal principles where Dewey distrusted fixed rules. (similarity 0.79)
• Enlightened societies transmit only selected cultural achievements (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Ambedkar sought to replace caste social morality with cultivated constitutional morality #expands (0.60) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 109