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27. Sept. 2011 · The term ‘constructivism’ entered debates in moral theory with John Rawls’ seminal Dewey Lectures “Kantian Constructivism in Moral Theory” (Rawls 1980), wherein Rawls offered a reinterpretation of the philosopher Immanuel Kant’s ethics and of its relevance for political debates.
- Practical Reason
There are divergent approaches that have been taken within...
- Practical Reason
19. Okt. 2016 · The general case against Kantian constructivism as a theory of normativity largely depends on the special case of moral obligations. The standard objection is that constructivism grounds moral obligation on the value of humanity, hence tacitly committing to moral realism.
- Carla Bagnoli
- carla.bagnoli@gmail.com
- 2016
those lectures Rawls sketches a type of moral theory ("Kantian Construc- tivism") that he says Sidgwick, and most subsequent moral philosophers, have overlooked, and he cites his own theory of justice as an illustration.
18. Jan. 2024 · In both “Kantian Constructivism” as a theory of justice and Kantian constructivism as a comprehensive moral view, Rawls makes it clear that the term “constructivism” applies to the derivation of political or more generally moral principles from the conception of free and equal persons, not to the conception of free and equal ...
29. Nov. 2017 · In his 1980 Dewey Lectures, titled “Kantian Constructivism in Moral Theory,” Rawls portrayed himself – justifiably – as the first to develop what he calls Kantian constructivism as an important moral theory on par with (and, according to Rawls, in fact superior to) intuitionism and utilitarianism. 1 Through this and other publications as well as...
- Michael Rohlf
- rohlf@cua.edu
- 2017
Abstract John Rawls's account of Kantian constructivism is perhaps his most striking contribution to ethics. In this paper, I examine the relation between Rawls's constructivism and its foundation in …
Kantian constructivism is the meta-ethical view that there are objective criteria for the rational validity of norms and that such criteria explain also why such norms are subjectively authoritative and universally binding.1What I take to be distinctively BKantian^ about the constructivist theory that I defend is that it takes reason to be auton...
