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    It is not the case that Locke's rationalist model presupposes a detached deliberative agent that abstracts away the situated character formation virtue ethics requires.

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    • 1.Locke's empiricism emphasizes sensory experience grounded in actual environmental and social contexts, not purely detached abstraction.
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    • 2.Virtue ethics and rationalist epistemology address different philosophical questions (ethics vs. knowledge) and need not be incompatible frameworks.
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    • 3.One can accept Lockean deliberation *about* moral principles while acknowledging virtue requires situated habituation *beyond* deliberation alone.
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    • 1.Virtue ethics requires character formation through habituation in particular social contexts, practices, and mentorships over time.
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    • 2.Locke's epistemology treats the mind as a blank slate acquiring ideas through detached sensory input, abstracting from social embedding.
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    • 3.Deliberative rationality divorced from embodied practice and community cannot adequately ground the affective-habitual dimensions virtues require.
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