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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 intuitions. In particular, I focus on the progressive influence on Rawls's approach of the Kantian intuition that the substance of morality is best ...
The Journal of Philosophy was founded in 1904 as The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology, and Scientific Methods by Frederick J. E. Woodbridge and J. McKeen Catte...
The central idea of Kantian constructivism is linking certain notions of the person and principles of justice that should regulate basic social institutions by means of the constructivist procedure. The author’s starting point is the conception of moral persons as free and equal. He claims that an appropriate connection among thus perceived ...
19 de oct. de 2016 · Non-Kantian variants of constructivism build upon the alleged failure of Kantian constructivism to stand free of metaphysical commitments about moral agency and value. In sum, it is widely agreed that in order to preserve a freestanding conception of reasoning, constructivism must endorse a completely content-less procedure, which for this very reason renounces to fails to prescribe any morality.
However, his most thorough treatment of the view can be found in the above-quoted Dewey Lectures, collectively titled “Kantian Constructivism in Moral Theory”. Here, like in many of his other works, Rawls is primarily concerned with describing and defending an interpretation of justice as fairness– “the idea that the principles of justice are agreed to in an initial situation that is ...
Constructivism, in the sense that interests us here, first plays a major role in Rawls's 1980 Dewey Lectures, "Kantian Constructivism in Moral Theory", where Rawls clarifies his own project as a limited programme in political theory, not in moral philosophy in general, a programme he has also described as something "political, not metaphysical".
variety of different claims about Kantian constructivism. A methodological construal of constructivism relies on Rawls' distinc-tion in The Independence of Moral Theory' between moral theory and moral philosophy (1974: 5-7, 21). Moral theory merely articulates given moral conceptions or structures and is not concerned with the truth
