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    It is not the case that Contractarian morality is not sufficiently other-regarding

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    • 1.Contractarian morality motivates moral action by appeal to self-interest rather than concern for others
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    • 2.A moral theory that appeals only to self-interest gives agents no reason to feel guilt or remorse for wrongdoing
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    • 3.A moral theory that fails to motivate other-regarding concern is not sufficiently other-regarding
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    • 1.Gauthier's 'constrained maximizer' still treats compliance as instrumentally rational, reducing moral obligations to contingent bargaining advantages.
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    • 2.When other-regarding behavior ceases to be individually advantageous, contractarian agents have no non-self-interested reason to maintain it.
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    • 3.Virtue ethics requires stable other-regarding dispositions that persist independent of personal benefit, which contractarianism structurally cannot generate.
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    • 1.Rawls's veil of ignorance generates principles of justice but leaves motivational gaps: agents who know their actual position have diminished reasons to honor the original agreement.
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    • 2.Without Kantian or Aristotelian grounding in genuine concern for persons as ends, contractarian compliance remains parasitic on enforcement mechanisms rather than internalized moral character.
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