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Agent-Relative Reasons and the Paradox of Deontology

Why a constraint forbids an act that would prevent more acts of the very same kind

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Will defineagent-relative reasonagent-neutral reasondeontological constraintparadox of deontology
Assumesdeontologyconsequentialismnormative reasondoctrine of double effectagent-centred prerogative

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