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Kaufman, Alexander. "Kant and Constructivism" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott, Loews Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 31, 2006 <Not Available>. 2011-03-13 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p150482_index.html>

Kaufman, A. , 2006-08-31 "Kant and Constructivism" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott, Loews Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA Online <PDF>. 2011-03-13 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p150482_index.html

Publication Type: Proceeding Abstract: Is Kant�s approach to moral and political judgment constructivist? John Rawls argues that constructivism is central feature of Kant�s approach. According to this view, Kantian constructivism generates moral principles from a model that is drawn from a particular conception of the person in combination with a conception of the public role of moral precepts. Critics, including Onora O�Neill, Larry Krasnoff and Barbara Herman, object that Rawls�s interpretation distorts various aspects of Kantian moral judgment. In particular, such critics argue that Kant�s approach: (i) does not describe a particular conception of the person, but rather pictures individuals facing moral questions in the actual world; (ii) provides only a shared method for evaluating individual maxims, and not a method for identifying a shared set of principles; and (iii) focuses on the possible endorsement of maxims, not on the hypothetical choice of principles. I will argue that these three objections fail. The first objection reflects a misunderstanding of the role played by a conception of the person in a constructivist procedure; and the second and third objections reflect an unnecessarily constricted view of Kantian moral judgment. The constructivism of Kant�s approach, moreover, reflects Kant�s commitment to clarity in moral argument. The clearly defined structure of moral argument and the transparency that such a structure produces are designed to ensure that the reasoning is accessible and to lay the contents of the arguments open to critical review. I will argue that this commitment to clarity, combined with the approach�s implicit commitment to intersubjective justification of moral and political judgments, constitutes a particular virtue for an account of political reasoning for societies characterized by pluralistic disagreement.

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