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    Happiness is directly proportioned to merit. — Carmelics
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    Happiness is directly proportioned to merit.

    Justice & PunishmentVirtue Ethics
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    • 1.True philosophy (sound metaphysics) provides grounds for assurance that virtue is rewarded.
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    • 2.One's well-being does not completely depend on the goods of this life.
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    • 3.It is incompatible with God's universal benevolence and infinite wisdom that a virtuous deed goes unrewarded or a vicious deed unpunished.
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    • 1.Empirical observation consistently shows the righteous suffering and the wicked prospering, as catalogued in Job and Epicurus's challenge to providential theodicy.
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    • 2.Any proportionality between merit and happiness that is deferred to an afterlife is epistemically inaccessible and therefore cannot serve as a foundation for a just moral order in this world.
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    • 3.Invoking divine guarantee to secure the merit-happiness proportionality converts an ethical claim into a theological one, making it unfalsifiable and circular as moral reasoning.
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    • 1.Kant argued that happiness and virtue are heterogeneous: virtue belongs to the order of freedom and rational willing, while happiness belongs to the causal order of nature, and no necessary connection exists between them.
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    • 2.Because desert is determined by rational agency and happiness by natural causation, their proportionality would require a pre-established harmony that cannot be derived from practical reason alone and must be merely postulated, not demonstrated.
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    We are now in a position to see how specifically the solid principles of philosophy strengthen morality. True philosophy (i.e., sound metaphysics) aids morality by providing grounds for assurance that in the end happiness is directly proportioned to merit. The more virtuous one is, the greater the happiness one can expect because one's well-being does not completely depend on the goods of this life and because it is incompatible with God's universal benevolence and infinite wisdom that even a si
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    Kant argued that happiness and virtue are heterogeneous: virtue belongs to the o...
    One's well-being does not completely depend on the goods of this life.
    True philosophy (sound metaphysics) provides grounds for assurance that virtue i...
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