American settlement house founder and pragmatist philosopher who developed an ethics of care and democratic theory grounded in direct engagement with immigrant and working-class communities.
Developed the settlement house movement as a philosophical and practical project: philosophy must be tested in democratic, cross-cultural community life; social ethics emerges from sympathetic understanding across class and ethnic lines, not from abstract principles.
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