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    If virtue's role is to correctly identify happiness as th... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→When Aristotle says virtue makes the goal right, he must mean that deliberation typically proceeds from a goal more specific than attaining happiness by acting virtuously.

    If virtue's role is to correctly identify happiness as the ultimate end rather than to specify a subordinate goal, the claim's interpretive move to a 'more specific goal' is explanatorily unnecessary.

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    Explanatorily unnecessary(as used in logical argumentation)
    Information or an explanation that doesn't actually help us understand something better—it's extra or redundant.
    Subordinate goal(as used in ethics and goal-setting)
    A smaller, less important goal that you pursue mainly because it helps you reach a bigger goal.
    happiness (eudaimonia)(Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book I.)
    Excellent or virtuous activity of the soul, understood by reference to the uniquely human function.
    ultimate end(Hutcheson's critique of fitness-based ethics)
    An end that is not fit in virtue of giving rise to some other thing.
    virtue(Valla's voluntarist account of virtue)

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    A quality that resides in the will, governing actions to which moral qualifications are assigned.

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