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    Complacence in benevolence's beauty introduces an aesthet... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→True virtue includes both benevolence toward being in general and complacence in benevolence's intrinsic excellence or beauty.

    Complacence in benevolence's beauty introduces an aesthetic pleasure that makes virtue contingent on sensory or emotional response.

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    • 1.Humans are embodied beings; virtue divorced from emotional resonance lacks motivational force in actual moral practice.
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    • 2.Aesthetic experience of benevolence can reinforce virtuous habits by making them psychologically rewarding and repeatable.
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    • 3.If virtue requires only abstract duty, it becomes alien to human nature and inaccessible to most moral agents.
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    • 1.Virtue grounded in sensory pleasure is unstable—moral actions motivated by beauty become vicious when beauty fades.
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    • 2.True benevolence obligates action regardless of aesthetic reward; making it contingent corrupts the virtue itself.
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    • 3.Emotional pleasure is subjective and varies by individual; virtue cannot be contingent on unreliable sensory responses.
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