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    Challenges→Excess should be avoided because it leads one away from the path of virtue.

    If certain virtues like creative excellence or heroic self-overcoming require transgressing conventional limits, then excess relative to common standards is constitutive of those virtues, not a departure from them.

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    Creative excellence(as an example of a virtue)
    The quality of producing outstanding, original, and skillful work in art, writing, music, or other creative fields.
    Departure(contrasting with the idea that excess is actually central to these virtues)
    A deviation or difference from what is standard, normal, or expected.
    Heroic self-overcoming(as an example of a virtue)
    The virtue of pushing past your own limitations, fears, or weaknesses through great effort and determination.
    Transgressing(describing what these virtues might require)
    Going beyond or breaking established rules, boundaries, or social norms.
    constitutive(an alternative type of relationship the grounding relation might be)

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    virtues(Core concept of virtue ethics)
    Excellent traits of character, such as kindness, honesty, sincerity, and justice, that virtue ethics uses to assess the ethical quality of actions and agents

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