The two points central to the pragmatist ethics are: a formal rejection of all
fixed standards—and an unquestioning absorption of the prevailing standards.
The same two points constitute the pragmatist approach to politics, which,
developed most influentially by Dewey, became the philosophy of the Progressive
movement in this country (and of most of its liberal descendants down to the
present day).
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