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    Challenges→One cannot prove that something is valuable by mere argument alone.

    Even argumentatively supported value judgments must be grounded in experience and reflection on the wider consequences of acting on them.

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    Dewey derived several unsettling implications for traditional morality and traditional philosophical ethics from his moral epistemology. Traditional or conventional morality tries to enforce unquestioning obedience to its precepts. Dewey argued that this was a formula for perpetual immaturity, because it cut off all possibility of learning better ways to live by experimenting with them. Pragmatist moral epistemology also rejects philosophy’s a priori, dialectical methods for determining the goo

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