Mutualism, Form, Content

As has been previously discussed, Mutualism can be conceived as an instance of Kantian Morality, i. e. voluntary fairness combines the concepts of Autonomy and End-in-Itself.  Conversely, as an instance of Kantian Morality, Mutualism exposes an inadequacy of one of the prominent criticisms of that doctrine.  The criticism is that it is merely abstract, deficient for guiding concrete behavior.  However, Mutualism shows why such under-determination can be regarded as a virtue.  For, beyond the formal requirement that an exchange be fair, its details are contingent, determinable by the parties involved, not a priori.  In other words, the formal requirement is not, as is charged in the criticism, abstract, but, rather, concrete, awaiting content that complements it.  So, Mutualism illustrates that the Abstract-Concrete contrast that is the basis of the criticism is actually one of Form-Content, each of which is concrete.