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    It is not the case that A virtue ethical theory can be both extensionally and explanatorily adequate

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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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    • 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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