Philosophy:Moral constructivism

Short description: Philosophical position

Moral constructivism or ethical constructivism is a view both in meta-ethics and normative ethics.

Metaethical constructivism holds that correctness of moral judgments, principles and values is determined by being the result of a suitable constructivist procedure. In other words, normative values are not something discovered by the use of theoretical reason, but a construction of human practical reason.

In normative ethics, moral constructivism is the view that principles and values within a given normative domain can be justified based on the very fact that they are the result of a suitable constructivist device or procedure.

See also

• Constructivism in Practical Philosophy
• Ethical subjectivism
• Moral rationalism
• Pragmatic ethics

External links

• "Constructivism in Metaethics". https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/constructivism-metaethics/. Retrieved 4 December 2018. 
• Jezzi, Nathaniel. "Constructivism in Metaethics". https://www.iep.utm.edu/con-ethi/. Retrieved 4 December 2018.