Fish on pragmatism

Stanley Fish on the New York Times Opinionator blog, on pragmatism (quoting from Joseph Margolis' new book Pragmatism's Advantage): 

What is truth? What is real? How are we to act? What is the source of moral and/or epistemological authority? Pragmatism’s basic move is to declare that the answers to these questions will not be found by identifying some transcendental universal and then conforming ourselves to its normative demands (like 'Be ye perfect'). Rather, we must, and can, make do with the 'ordinary aptitudes of human beings (ourselves) viewed within a generously Darwinized ecology, without transcendental, revelatory, or privileged presumptions of any kind'.