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The paper argues that Peter Singer's argument for utilitarianism is a failure, and that repairing the argument requires learning from the lesson of Rousseau and Kant. It points out that, like Singer, Rousseau's argument for the social contract comes unstuck because he cannot keep together his self-interested starting point (natural man) and his civic-minded conclusion. It then shows that Kant solved...