Can Rawls’ Constructivism Avoid the Euthyphro Dilemma? In Reply to Shafer-Landau

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

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2014 Higher Education Press and Brill