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    [Behaving sound-mindedly is always behaving finely.] — Carmelics
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    Supports→In the case of [many] bodily activities, behaving quietly is not behaving sound-mindedly. (literally: swiftness, not quietness is more sound-minded)
    Supports→In the case of [many] psychological activities, behaving quietly is not behaving sound-mindedly.

    [Behaving sound-mindedly is always behaving finely.]

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    • Sound-mindedness is one of the fine things. (repeated at 159d8 and 11 as 'is something fine')
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    • Sound-mindedness is one of the fine things.
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    • 1.Sound-mindedness (sōphrosynē) can manifest as mere conformity or passivity, which may lack the positive moral achievement required for fineness.
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    • 2.Aristotle distinguishes continence (enkrateia) from genuine virtue: the continent person restrains bad desires but does not thereby act finely in the full sense.
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    • 3.If sound-mindedness admits of degrees or deficient forms, then some instances of sound-minded behavior may be fine only derivatively or not at all.
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    • 1.The inference from 'X is one of the fine things' to 'all instances of X are fine' commits a composition fallacy, conflating the type with every token.
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    • 2.Kant's analysis of moral worth shows that an action's belonging to a virtuous category does not guarantee that every particular performance of it carries genuine moral merit.
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    • 3.A sound-minded act performed for base motives or under radical self-deception may retain the outward form of sōphrosynē while lacking the fineness the virtue is meant to constitute.
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    Sound-mindedness (sōphrosynē) can manifest as mere conformity or passivity, whic...
    Sound-mindedness is one of the fine things.
    Sound-mindedness is one of the fine things. (repeated at 159d8 and 11 as 'is som...
    The inference from 'X is one of the fine things' to 'all instances of X are fine...