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    An action counts as right provided it is good enough even... — Carmelics
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    Supports→A permissive target-centered account allows that right action need not be the best action, only good enough.

    An action counts as right provided it is good enough even if not the best action available.

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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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