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en-wikipedia-org-4173		Pragmatic ethics - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2508	539	63	Ethical pragmatists such as John Dewey believe that some societies have progressed morally in much the way they have attained progress in science. Similarly, ethical pragmatists think that norms, principles, and moral criteria are likely to be improved as a result of inquiry. Much as it is appropriate for scientists to act as though a hypothesis were true despite expecting future inquiry to supplant it, ethical pragmatists acknowledge that it can be appropriate to practice a variety of other normative approaches (e.g. consequentialism, deontological ethics, and virtue ethics), yet acknowledge the need for mechanisms which allow people to advance beyond such approaches, a freedom for discourse which does not take any such theory as assumed.[2] Thus, aimed at social innovation, the practice of pragmatic ethics supplements the practice of other normative approaches with what John Stuart Mill called "experiments in living".[3][4][5] John Dewey and moral imagination: pragmatism in ethics.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4173.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4173.txt