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    It is not the case that A code for perfectly moral beings presupposes the very virtuous dispositions that moral guidance is needed to cultivate, rendering it action-guiding only for those who need no guidance.

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    • 1.Moral codes can guide behavior through external incentives and habit formation even without internal virtue understanding or motivation.
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    • 2.Partial understanding of virtue suffices for guidance; one need not already possess a virtue to be directed toward developing it.
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    • 3.The claim conflates what a code presupposes metaphysically with what it requires psychologically from its audience to be action-guiding.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Moral codes presuppose understanding of virtues like justice and courage that only the already virtuous fully comprehend and embody.
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    • 2.Guidance works only when recipients can recognize its value and act on it—capacities requiring the virtuous dispositions the code aims to instill.
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    • 3.A vicious person lacks the perceptual and motivational resources to be moved by even perfect moral instruction.
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