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    A virtuous act is one that responds well enough to items ... — Carmelics
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    Supports→A permissive target-centered account allows that right action need not be the best action, only good enough.

    A virtuous act is one that responds well enough to items in the virtue's field.

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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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