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    If an agent must suppress awareness of their virtuous cha... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The self-effacement objection does not seriously undermine virtue ethics.

    If an agent must suppress awareness of their virtuous character to act well, the motivational structure of virtue ethics is internally incoherent.

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    • 1.Virtuous agents act from stable character traits, which necessarily involve self-awareness of their motivational dispositions.
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    • 2.If virtue requires suppressing self-knowledge, the agent becomes alienated from their own moral psychology, undermining authenticity.
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    • 3.A coherent ethical theory cannot demand both that agents cultivate virtues AND that they remain ignorant of their virtuous development.
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    • 1.Acting virtuously requires attending to external circumstances, not internal character assessment; virtuous action need not require self-consciousness.
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    • 2.Awareness of one's virtue can coexist with unselfconscious action—one can know oneself to be courageous while focusing attention on the danger ahead.
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    • 3.The claim conflates 'suppressing awareness' with 'lacking reflective focus'; virtue ethics permits both self-knowledge and unreflective excellent action.
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