International audienceHow the question of the philosophical life or philosophy as life in John Dewey is the subject of this article at the convergence of three sources: ethical, religious and aesthetic. Ideas of moral development and self-realization, developed first in an idealist and then in a naturalist climate, define a new Bildung as self-education and continued engagement in democratic causes. The secularization of the religious combines with that of the aesthetic to produce an experience of metamorphosis, “fit”, which marks the stages of self-improvement. Dewey draws together the legacy of transcendentalism of Emerson and Thoreau, and through him, the Stoic lesson to propose a re-elaboration in a philosophy of becoming.Comment se pos...