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    It is not the case that Our obligation to virtue remains fully valid even under radical skepticism about external reality.

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    • 1.Virtue requires action oriented toward genuine goods, and if external reality is radically uncertain, the very category of 'genuine good' collapses into mere subjective preference.
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    • 2.Shaftesbury's 'economy of conduct' presupposes a stable natural order whose teleological structure grounds moral norms, but radical skepticism dissolves precisely that ontological foundation.
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    • 3.Without confidence that our affections track real features of the world, the distinction between well-ordered and disordered passions becomes an internal aesthetic preference, not a moral obligation.
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    • 1.Hume's is-ought gap entails that the felt certainty of our passions generates no normative 'ought' without a bridging claim about the value of those passions' objects.
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    • 2.Radical skepticism about external reality severs any such bridging claim, reducing Shaftesbury's 'demonstrations of reason' to coherence within a potentially fictive system that carries no genuine obligatory force.
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    • 1.Passions and affections are known to us with certainty regardless of whether their external objects are real or illusory.
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    • 2.The moral and practical balance we must maintain (economy of conduct) holds good whether life is reality or a dream.
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    • 3.Demonstrations of reason retain their force within the dream of life just as they would in waking reality.
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