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    It is not the case that Luck plays a significant role in determining both whether people are truly virtuous and whether people's lives are good in the broadest sense

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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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    • 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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