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    Challenges→Moral considerations must somehow produce sensations of pleasure or pain in human beings

    Aristotle's virtuous agent acts from stable rational dispositions (hexeis) that motivate without requiring occurrent felt pleasure as the proximate cause.

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    • 1.Virtuous agents exhibit consistent behavior across contexts without deliberating each action, suggesting stable dispositions rather than pleasure-seeking.
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    • 2.If virtue required occurrent pleasure as proximate cause, moral weakness would be inexplicable—we'd always act on felt pleasure.
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    • 3.Aristotle distinguishes virtue from mere continence, implying virtuous action flows directly from character, not pleasure-driven calculation.
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    • 1.Aristotle explicitly states virtuous activity is pleasant and that flourishing involves hedone; stable disposition alone doesn't explain motivation.
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    • 2.Without some affective component (pleasure or pain), it's unclear why a hexis would move an agent to act rather than remain inert knowledge.
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