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Daniel Teshman

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Open access Sep 2026

The Universalizability Trap: Rational Agency, the Authority of Ought-Claims, and the Limits of Utilitarian Justifications for Killing

This article defends a formal argument concerning whether a group of rational agents ( A , B , and C ) can be rationally justified in killing a fellow rational agent ( D ) on utilitarian grounds. I do not contest the utilitarian calculus, and I do not claim that utilitarians derive morality from instrumental...

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