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    It is not the case that Aristotle's account of proper emotional response in the Nicomachean Ethics treats fittingness as constitutively involving moral considerations about what a virtuous person would feel.

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    • 1.Some emotions may be fitting based on objective features of situations (danger warrants fear) independent of virtue considerations.
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    • 2.Making virtue constitutive of fittingness risks circularity: we identify virtuous responses by their fittingness, then define fittingness through virtue.
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    • 3.The virtuous person might feel anger at injustice, but fittingness seems to depend on the injustice itself, not the agent's character.
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    • 1.Aristotle defines virtue as a mean between extremes, requiring practical wisdom to discern appropriate responses in particular contexts.
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    • 2.The virtuous person's emotional responses serve as the standard for what is genuinely appropriate, not mere subjective preference.
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    • 3.Fittingness cannot be purely naturalistic; it requires evaluative judgment about what character excellence demands in each situation.
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