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    It is not the case that Sulzer's moral theory is not egocentric.

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    • 1.Mandeville and Helvetius demonstrated that natural desires for others' happiness can be fully explained as disguised self-interest, socialized through habit and reinforcement.
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    • 2.If the premise that humans desire happiness for others is derived from analogy with self-desire, the argument presupposes rather than transcends an egocentric starting point.
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    • 3.A theory that derives other-regarding duties through first-person desire projection cannot escape the charge of egocentrism without an independent grounding for other-regarding norms.
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    • 1.Sulzer grounds moral motivation in natural sympathy, but Kant argues sympathy-based morality remains heteronomous and thus self-regarding in its dependence on contingent feeling.
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    • 2.A moral theory whose universality depends on psychological projection from self to others retains the ego as its epistemic and motivational anchor, making it structurally egocentric.
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    • 1.Normal human beings naturally desire for others what they desire for themselves.
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    • 2.Normal human beings naturally recognize the right of others to that for which they claim a right for themselves.
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    • 3.Those who desire happiness for themselves naturally desire it for others as well.
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