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    If an agent's capacity to recognize good ends is itself i... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The knowledge involved in wisdom is within the scope of the will and can fairly be the basis of moral evaluation.

    If an agent's capacity to recognize good ends is itself impaired by factors outside voluntary control, then the knowledge involved in wisdom is not uniformly within the scope of the will.

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    Key Terms

    Good ends(as used in ethics)
    Goals or outcomes that are worthwhile or valuable—the things we aim for because we think they matter or will make life better.
    Scope of the will(as used in discussions of free will and responsibility)
    The range of things that are actually under a person's direct control through their choices and intentions.
    Voluntary control(as used in discussions of free will and responsibility)
    The ability to consciously choose and govern your own actions through willpower and deliberate decision-making.
    agent(Economics terminology applied to medical ethics)
    The party in a principal-agent relationship who is instructed to produce the good or service on the principal's behalf — in the medical context, the doctor
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    (Theory of capacity)
    A subject's ability to make decisions, assessed by paradigm examples and the presence of necessary (and possibly sufficient) abilities.
    impaired(as used to describe the strength or degree of a limitation)
    Weakened or damaged, but not completely destroyed or non-functional.
    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
    wisdom(Contrasted explicitly with polymathy and raw sensory experience.)
    Not the accumulation of sensory information, but the capacity to grasp how phenomena function as signs of the larger cosmic order.

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