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    The dogmatism of traditional philosophical ethics is foll... — Carmelics
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    The dogmatism of traditional philosophical ethics is folly because it hobbles moral progress.

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    • 1.Historical moral progress (e.g., abolition, expanded suffrage) resulted from experiential challenges to entrenched a priori norms, not from within deductive systems.
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    • 2.Kant's categorical imperative and Aristotle's natural teleology both historically rationalized slavery and gender subordination, demonstrating that fixed first principles resist corrective revision.
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    • 3.A moral framework that cannot be falsified by consequences is epistemically equivalent to dogma, regardless of its internal logical coherence.
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    • 1.Dewey's experimental ethics treats moral principles as working hypotheses, subject to revision when their consequences fail to resolve genuine human problems.
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    • 2.Mill's own revisions to utilitarianism—introducing qualitative distinctions between pleasures—demonstrate that even consequentialist progress requires departing from rigid first principles.
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    • 3.A framework that generates hypotheses, tests them against lived experience, and revises them accordingly possesses greater adaptive capacity than one anchored to fixed categorical imperatives.
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    • 1.Traditional philosophical ethics uses a priori, dialectical methods to determine the good and the right.
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    • 2.Such methods cannot adequately test value judgments against experience and consequences.
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    • 3.Moral progress requires the ability to revise value judgments in light of new evidence and consequences.
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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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