...a Kantian would never decide to emulate Utilitarian behavior.
"Act so as to maximize total utility" (for any specific definition of utility) is just one of the maxims a Kantian could in principle follow.
This is correct. The Universal Law Formulation of Kant's Categorical Imperative states, roughly:
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.
In considering the maxim "Act so as to maximize total utility" (for some specific definition of utility), a Kantian would attempt to universalize it and ask "what would the world look like if everybody followed this maxim?" The merits of the maxim would then be judged against other possible maxims (or combinations thereof) by c...
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