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    Societies need their members to endorse some suitable mor... — Carmelics
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    Supports→The need for objective moral standards is practical rather than purely theoretical.

    Societies need their members to endorse some suitable moral code in order to facilitate cooperation.

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    Society-based constructivism – elaborated by David Copp, holds that there are true moral standards, which are the output of a decision procedure that takes into account the needs and values of the society and facts about the society’s circumstances (Copp 1995, 2007). Accordingly, the theory accounts for moral truth as depending on what would be rational for societies to choose. Copp’s view shares some important features with Kantian constructivism. First, society-based constructivism holds that

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