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    A virtue ethical theory can be both extensionally and explanatorily adequate

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    • 1.Making room for normative concepts not reducible to virtue and vice increases the theory's coverage
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    • 2.Virtue ethicists have multiple resources available to address the adequacy objection
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    • 1.Virtue ethics derives action-guidance from character traits, but character traits are situationally variable, as Harman and Doris demonstrate empirically.
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    • 2.A theory whose central explanatory concept lacks cross-situational stability cannot generate reliable extensional verdicts about what agents ought to do.
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    • 1.Expanding virtue ethics by importing normative concepts like rights or consequences creates theoretical pluralism, not a unified virtue-ethical framework.
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    • 2.A theory that borrows extensional adequacy from rival frameworks explains right action through those frameworks, not through virtue, undermining its explanatory autonomy.
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    As we observed in section 2, a virtue ethical account need not attempt to reduce all other normative concepts to virtues and vices. What is required is simply (i) that virtue is not reduced to some other normative concept that is taken to be more fundamental and (ii) that some other normative concepts are explained in terms of virtue and vice. This takes the sting out of the adequacy objection, which is most compelling against versions of virtue ethics that attempt to define all of the senses of
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