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    A person can exhibit perfect outward quietness while harb... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Sound-mindedness is some sort of quietness (hesuxiotes).

    A person can exhibit perfect outward quietness while harboring disordered desires, thus lacking genuine sound-mindedness.

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    • 1.Sound-mindedness requires internal harmony between desires and reason, not merely external compliance with behavioral norms.
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    • 2.A person with carefully suppressed but unresolved disordered desires remains psychologically unstable and prone to eventual behavioral breakdown.
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    • 3.Ancient virtue traditions distinguish true virtue (internal alignment) from mere continence (external restraint without internal transformation).
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    • 1.Perfect outward quietness over sustained time requires genuine habituation that typically reshapes internal desires toward that behavior pattern.
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    • 2.Claiming knowledge of someone's inner desires without behavioral evidence or self-report relies on unverifiable psychological assumptions.
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    • 3.Sound-mindedness may be defined functionally by behavioral outcomes and social contribution rather than by internal subjective states.
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