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). The Ayn Rand Letter Leonard Peikoff, “Pragmatism Versus America,” The Ayn Rand Letter, III, 17, 1
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