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    If the constraints of generality already presuppose citiz... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→There is a tension in Rousseau's Social Contract between two accounts of how the general will emerges.

    If the constraints of generality already presuppose citizens abstracting from particular interests, then virtue just is the internalized disposition to satisfy those procedural constraints.

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    Constraints of generality(as used in political philosophy)
    Limitations that force people to think in broad, universal terms rather than about their own specific situations.
    Presuppose(what both foundationalisms supposedly do)
    To assume or take for granted something as true in order to make an argument work, without proving it first.
    Procedural constraints(what game-theoretic logic adds)
    Specific rules or limitations about how something can be done—like requiring players to take turns or remember previous moves.
    abstracting from particular interests(in ethics and political theory)
    Setting aside your own personal wants and concerns to think about what's fair for everyone in general.
    internalized disposition

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    (in philosophy of mind and ethics)
    A deeply ingrained habit or tendency that someone has made part of their own thinking and behavior, so it feels natural to them.
    virtue(Valla's voluntarist account of virtue)
    A quality that resides in the will, governing actions to which moral qualifications are assigned.

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