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Frontiers of Philosophy in China

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Front. Philos. China    2015, Vol. 10 Issue (4) : 568-578    https://doi.org/10.3868/s030-004-015-0046-3
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Can Rawls’ Constructivism Avoid the Euthyphro Dilemma? In Reply to Shafer-Landau
ZHOU Lian()
School of Philosophy, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China
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Abstract

In this essay, I consider two challenges implicit in Russ Shafer-Landau’s criticism of constructivists: the realism challenge and the relativism challenge, respectively. I do not try to offer a decisive set of objections to the challenges; instead I argue that some objective versions of constructivism, especially Rawls’s constructivism, are not susceptible to the criticisms.

Keywords Euthyphro dilemma      moral realism      moral constructivism      relativism     
Issue Date: 26 January 2016
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ZHOU Lian. Can Rawls’ Constructivism Avoid the Euthyphro Dilemma? In Reply to Shafer-Landau[J]. Front. Philos. China, 2015, 10(4): 568-578.
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https://academic.hep.com.cn/fpc/EN/Y2015/V10/I4/568
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