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    A permissive target-centered account allows that right ac... — Carmelics
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    A permissive target-centered account allows that right action need not be the best action, only good enough.

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    • 1.A virtuous act is one that responds well enough to items in the virtue's field.
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    • 2.A permissive target-centered account does not identify 'right' with 'best'.
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    • 3.An action counts as right provided it is good enough even if not the best action available.
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    • 1.Aristotle's doctrine of the mean requires that virtuous action hit the precise target of the right response, not merely an acceptable range.
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    • 2.If 'good enough' actions short of the best are right, the virtuous person and the merely adequate person become morally indistinguishable.
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    • 3.Virtue ethics is distinguished from consequentialism precisely by demanding excellence of character, not satisficing behavioral thresholds.
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    • 1.Rosalind Hursthouse argues that right action is what a virtuous agent would characteristically do, implying a determinate standard tied to full virtue.
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    • 2.A permissive 'good enough' standard collapses into a form of moral satisficing that severs the internal connection between acting rightly and being virtuous.
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    A virtue, on a target-centered account, “is a disposition to respond to, or acknowledge, items within its field or fields in an excellent or good enough way” (Swanton 2003: 19). A virtuous act is an act that hits the target of a virtue, which is to say that it succeeds in responding to items in its field in the specified way (233). Providing a target-centered definition of a right action requires us to move beyond the analysis of a single virtue and the actions that follow from it. This is becau
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