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    Challenges→It is in our power to be either virtuous or vicious.

    If the formative conditions of character—childhood environment, education, social circumstance—are not themselves in our power, then the resulting dispositions toward virtue or vice are not fully in our power.

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    Key Terms

    Disposition(as used in metaphysics)
    A tendency or potential for something to behave in a certain way under specific conditions—like how sugar has the disposition to dissolve when placed in water.
    Vice(Balguy 1728)
    The contrary of virtue; non-conformity of moral actions to the reasons of things.
    formative conditions(as used in ethics and philosophy of character)
    The experiences and circumstances during your early life that shape who you become, like your family, school, and neighborhood.
    in our power(as used in philosophy of free will and responsibility)
    Something that is within your control—something you are responsible for or can choose.
    moral responsibility(The author argues for a pluralistic understanding rather than a Kantian-exclusive one)

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    A normative concept whose scope is contested; the passage implies it encompasses at least Kantian notions (centered on individual rational agency) and other notions (potentially sociological, collective, or non-individualist in character)
    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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