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    A proper function becomes a fully correct action (katorth... — Carmelics
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    A proper function becomes a fully correct action (katorthôma) only when it is done virtuously.

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    • 1.A proper function is perfected as an action of the specific kind to which it belongs only when performed virtuously.
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    • 2.Both the sage and the ordinary person perform proper functions such as looking after their health.
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    • 1.Consequentialists (Mill, Sidgwick) hold that the moral worth of an action is determined by its outcomes, not the agent's character or motivation.
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    • 2.If an action produces optimal welfare regardless of the agent's virtue, it satisfies the strongest criterion for moral correctness.
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    • 3.Virtuous motivation is neither necessary nor sufficient for an action to qualify as fully correct.
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    • 1.Kant argues in the Groundwork that moral worth derives from acting from duty according to universal law, not from cultivated character traits.
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    • 2.A non-virtuous agent who performs a proper function strictly from rational duty fulfills the categorical imperative as completely as a sage would.
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    • 3.The Stoic conflation of psychological disposition with action-correctness smuggles agent-evaluation into act-evaluation without independent justification.
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    Since both ordinary people and Stoic wise men look after their health except in very extraordinary circumstances, both the sage and the ordinary person perform proper functions. A proper function becomes a fully correct action (katorthôma) only when it is perfected as an action of the specific kind to which it belongs, and so is done virtuously. In the tradition of Socratic moral theory, the Stoics regard virtues like courage and justice, and so on, as knowledge or science within the soul about
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