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    It is not the case that Practical wisdom is the intellectual virtue responsible for determining moral choice.

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    • 1.Moral choice is constitutively shaped by appetitive states that practical wisdom cannot fully govern or override.
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    • 2.Akrasia demonstrates that correct deliberation by practical wisdom fails to produce virtuous action when desire is disordered.
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    • 3.Therefore, practical wisdom is a necessary but insufficient determinant of moral choice, which is also constituted by non-rational desire.
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    • 1.Kant argues that moral choice is determined by the will's rational self-legislation under the categorical imperative, not by context-sensitive deliberation about particulars.
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    • 2.Practical wisdom, as Aristotle conceives it, is essentially tied to contingent ends and empirical circumstances rather than pure practical reason.
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    • 3.A capacity bound to contingent particulars cannot be the primary determinant of moral choice, which must be grounded in universal rational principles.
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    • 1.Moral virtues belong to the part of the soul that obeys reason, not the part that reasons itself.
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    • 2.Practical wisdom is a virtue of the part of the soul that itself reasons.
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    • 3.It is the role of practical wisdom to determine choice in action.
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