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    Christine Korsgaard's constitutivism shows Kantian value ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→There are realist elements in Kant's moral philosophy, regardless of whether Kant himself was ultimately a moral realist.

    Christine Korsgaard's constitutivism shows Kantian value is self-legislated, not discovered in a realist moral ontology.

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    • 1.Korsgaard argues rational agents must value their own agency; this self-valuation grounds normativity without external moral facts.
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    • 2.If moral truths existed independently, their motivational force on agents would require unexplained metaphysical access or causal powers.
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    • 3.Constitutivism explains how obligation arises from what agents necessarily commit to in acting—a more parsimonious account than realism.
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    • 1.Self-legislation alone cannot distinguish moral norms from arbitrary personal projects unless constrained by objective rational standards.
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    • 2.Korsgaard's reliance on the practical identity of rational agents seems to presuppose evaluative facts about which identities matter morally.
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    • 3.Constitutivism struggles to explain why we hold non-agents (e.g., future people, ecosystems) as having moral standing independent of our agency.
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