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    One's ability to live a virtuous life is deeply dependent... — Carmelics
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    One's ability to live a virtuous life is deeply dependent on luck

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    • 1.One becomes a virtuous person by undergoing the right kind of upbringing and training
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    • 2.Whether one receives the right upbringing and training is at least to some extent beyond one's control
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    • 1.Aristotle's own account holds that habituation shapes character, but practical reason (phronesis) allows agents to reflectively endorse or revise their dispositions over time.
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    • 2.The capacity for rational self-governance is not itself a product of upbringing in the same way character traits are, but is a constitutive feature of human agency as such.
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    • 3.Therefore, even if initial character formation involves luck, the ongoing exercise of virtue remains substantially within the agent's rational control.
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    • 1.Kant argues that moral worth derives entirely from the good will, which consists in the intention to act from duty rather than from any contingent character traits or circumstances.
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    • 2.The good will, as a purely rational capacity, is equally available to all rational agents regardless of upbringing, social position, or natural temperament.
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    • 3.Thus the dependency of character formation on luck is morally irrelevant, since genuine virtue is grounded in rational intention rather than cultivated disposition.
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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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