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    It is not the case that The content of everyone's self-legislation must be the same, assuming relevantly similar circumstances.

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    • 1.Agents occupy irreducibly different social positions, roles, and relational obligations that constitute morally relevant circumstances.
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    • 2.What counts as 'relevantly similar circumstances' cannot be determined independently of particular social and historical contexts.
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    • 3.Therefore, the universalizability constraint underdetermines content, permitting divergent yet equally rational self-legislation.
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    • 1.Aristotle's particularism holds that practical wisdom (phronesis) requires sensitivity to particulars that no universal maxim can fully capture.
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    • 2.If the virtuous agent's judgment is the standard of right action, self-legislation is indexed to individual character and context, not universal form.
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    • 1.There are standards of rational willing that constrain what anyone could will to serve as requirements incumbent on all agents.
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    • 2.These standards apply uniformly across agents in relevantly similar circumstances.
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