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DOI: 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
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  • School of Philosophy, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China

Published date: 15 Dec 2015

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2014 Higher Education Press and Brill
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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.

Key words： Euthyphro dilemma; moral realism; moral constructivism; relativism

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ZHOU Lian . Can Rawls’ Constructivism Avoid the Euthyphro Dilemma? In Reply to Shafer-Landau[J]. Frontiers of Philosophy in China, 2015 , 10(4) : 568 -578 . DOI: 10.3868/s030-004-015-0046-3

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