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    Luck plays a significant role in determining both whether... — Carmelics
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    Luck plays a significant role in determining both whether people are truly virtuous and whether people's lives are good in the broadest sense

    Moral Responsibility
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    • 1.Whether one receives the right upbringing and training to become virtuous is partly beyond one's control
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    • 2.Whether one has access to the external goods required for virtuous activity is partly beyond one's control
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    • 3.On one interpretation, happiness also requires a minimum provision of external goods (e.g., health, security, access to resources) independent of virtuous activity
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    • 1.Kant argues that moral worth derives solely from the will's conformity to duty, which remains entirely within rational agents' control regardless of circumstance.
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    • 2.External conditions like upbringing affect behavior and outcomes but cannot penetrate the noumenal will where genuine virtue is constituted.
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    • 3.Therefore, luck may influence what one does or achieves, but it cannot determine whether one is truly virtuous in the morally relevant sense.
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    • 1.Epictetus and the Stoics held that virtue is identical to correct use of one's rational faculty, which is always 'up to us' independent of fortune.
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    • 2.If happiness (eudaimonia) is properly identified with virtuous rational activity rather than external goods, then Aristotle's own framework undermines the luck-dependence claim.
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    • 3.The supporting arguments conflate contingent biographical influences on virtue-acquisition with the metaphysical question of what virtue itself consists in.
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    The idea that we ought to care about ethics, understood as Williams does, finds inspiration in the work of Aristotle. Aristotle is concerned with the nature of the good life in the broadest sense—in what he calls “eudaimonia,” often translated as “happiness”. Aristotle defends the idea that happiness consists in being a virtuous person over a complete life, and, in turn, the idea that being a virtuous person requires not only that one have virtuous qualities and dispositions, but also that one a
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