Notes
See Christine Korsgaard, “Kant’s Formula of Humanity,” Kant-Studien, vol. 77, 1986; see also Korsgaard, Self-Constitution (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).
Korsgaard, “Realism and Constructivism in Twentieth-Century Moral Philosophy,” Philosophy Documentation Center, 2003, p. 100.
See W.D. Ross, The Right and the Good (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1930).
See Korsgaard, “Realism and Constructivism in Twentieth-Century Moral Philosophy,” p. 105.
Korsgaard et al., The Sources of Normativity, ed., Onora O’Neil (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1996), p. 20.
See ibid., pp. 13–14.
Korsgaard, “Realism and Constructivism in Twentieth-Century Moral Philosophy,” p. 2.
Korsgaard, The Sources of Normativity, pp. 100–101.
Ibid., p. 121.
Thomas Nagel, “Universality and the Reflective Self,” in Korsgaard, The Sources of Normativity, p. 242.
See William FitzPatrick, “The Practical Turn in Ethical Theory: Korsgaard’s Constructivism, Realism, and the Nature of Normativity,” Ethics, vol. 115, 2000.
Ibid., p. 675.
Korsgaard, The Sources of Normativity, p. 257.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Korsgaard, Self-Constitution, p. 19.
See ibid., p. 18.
See David Enoch, “Agency, Shmagency: Why Morality Won’t Come from What Is Constitutive of Action,” Philosophical Review, vol. 115, 2006.
See Galen Strawson, “The Impossibility of Moral Responsibility,” Philosophical Studies, vol. 75, 1994.
Enoch, op. cit., p. 179.
See Jeffrie Murphy, “Moral Death: A Kantian Essay on Psychopathy,” Ethics, vol. 82, 1972.
See, Korsgaard, Self-Constitution, p. 162.
See Strawson, op. cit.
I would like to thank Kyla Ebels Duggan, Richard Kraut, and Rachel Zuckert for their help with earlier drafts of this paper. I would also like to thank Thomas Magnell, the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Value Inquiry, for his extensive comments and help.
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Papish, L. The Changing Shape of Korsgaard’s Understanding of Constructivism. J Value Inquiry 45, 451–463 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-011-9295-8
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