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    It is possible to be closer to or farther from achieving ... — Carmelics
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    It is possible to be closer to or farther from achieving virtue, even if strict moral progress does not exist.

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    • 1.The drowning analogy implies one can be nearer to or farther from the surface.
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    • 2.It is possible to be closer to finally being able to perform proper functions in a perfected way.
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    • 1.For the Stoics, virtue is a binary disposition of the rational soul: one either has the stable hexis of wisdom or one does not.
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    • 2.If proximity to virtue does not constitute genuine moral progress, then being 'closer' is merely a metaphor with no normative weight or action-guiding force.
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    • 3.A metaphor that tracks no real moral difference cannot ground meaningful distinctions in moral status, as Chrysippus's own uniformity thesis about fools implies.
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    • 1.Aristotle's doctrine of habituation (Nicomachean Ethics II.1) grounds incremental moral progress in actual character formation through repeated virtuous action.
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    • 2.The Stoic claim of proximity without progress borrows the intuitive force of Aristotelian gradualism while rejecting its metaphysical basis in the continuous development of hexis.
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    • 3.A position that appeals to degree without grounding those degrees in a continuous developmental ontology is internally unstable and collapses into either full Aristotelian gradualism or strict Stoic binarism.
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    Since both ordinary people and Stoic wise men look after their health except in very extraordinary circumstances, both the sage and the ordinary person perform proper functions. A proper function becomes a fully correct action (katorthôma) only when it is perfected as an action of the specific kind to which it belongs, and so is done virtuously. In the tradition of Socratic moral theory, the Stoics regard virtues like courage and justice, and so on, as knowledge or science within the soul about
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