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    We must act only on maxims that can be universal laws. — Carmelics
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    We must act only on maxims that can be universal laws.

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    • 1.If something is absolutely valuable, then we must act only on maxims that can be universal laws.
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    • 2.Humanity is absolutely valuable (postulated).
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    • 1.Moral obligations arise from particular relationships and concrete contexts, not universalizable abstractions (Noddings, Held).
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    • 2.A maxim of 'prioritize your child's welfare over strangers' cannot be universalized yet reflects genuine moral duty.
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    • 3.If care ethics identifies valid moral duties that resist universalization, universalizability cannot be a necessary condition for moral action.
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    • 1.The same action can be described under indefinitely many maxims, making universalizability tests indeterminate (Herman, Korsgaard).
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    • 2.If the categorical imperative cannot uniquely identify which maxim governs an act, it fails as a practical decision procedure for moral agents.
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    Perhaps, then, if the formulas are not equivalent in meaning, they are nevertheless logically interderivable and hence equivalent in this sense. The universal law formula is not itself derived, as some of Kant’s interpreters have suggested, from the principle of non-contradiction. That would have the consequence that the CI is a logical truth, and Kant insists that it is not or at least that it is not analytic. Since the CI formulas are not logical truths, then, it is possible that they could be
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