It focuses on society, rather than on lone individuals, as the entity which achieves morality. In Dewey's words, "all conduct is ... social". It does not hold any known moral criteria as beyond potential for revision. Pragmatic ethics may be misunderstood as relativist, as failing to be objective, but pragmatists object to this critique on grounds that the same could be said of science, yet inductive and hypothetico-deductive science is our epistemological standard.On inductive and hypothetico-deductive methods and their relation to pragmatist metamethodology, see: Ethical pragmatists can maintain that their endeavor, like inquiry in science, is objective on the grounds that it converges towards something objective (a thesis called Peircean realism named after C. S. Peirce). It allows that a moral judgment may be appropriate in one age of a given society, even though it will cease to be appropriate after that society progresses (or may already be inappropriate in another society)  .
It focuses on society, rather than on lone individuals, as the entity which achieves morality. In Dewey's words, "all conduct is ... social". It does not hold any known moral criteria as beyond potential for revision. Pragmatic ethics may be misunderstood as relativist, as failing to be objective, but pragmatists object to this critique on grounds that the same could be said of science, yet inductive and hypothetico-deductive science is our epistemological standard.On inductive and hypothetico-deductive methods and their relation to pragmatist metamethodology, see: Ethical pragmatists can maintain that their endeavor, like inquiry in science, is objective on the grounds that it converges towards something objective (a thesis called Peircean realism named after C. S. Peirce). It allows that a moral judgment may be accepted in one age of a given society, even though it will cease to be accepted after that society progresses (or may already be rejected in another society) . The change in moral judgments about slavery that led to the abolition of slavery is an example of the improvement of moral judgments through moral inquiry and advocacy .
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. The change in moral judgments about slavery that led to the abolition of slavery is an example of the improvement of moral judgments through moral inquiry and advocacy