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    It is not the case that Richard Kraut and David Wiggins have argued that phronesis and virtue jointly constitute the capacity to identify eudaimonia as the correct end, making the end-setting function non-derivative.

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    • 1.Natural human flourishing can be identified through biological and psychological observation independent of whether virtuous agents recognize it.
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    • 2.Virtuous people may *articulate* eudaimonia well, but this explanatory capacity doesn't prove virtue *constitutes* rather than *expresses* the end itself.
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    • 3.If phronesis jointly constitutes the end, non-virtuous observers cannot even recognize that virtuous people possess the correct end—an implausible epistemic closure.
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    • 1.Virtue enables perception of genuine goods; without virtue, agents mistake apparent for real ends, making virtue constitutive of end-identification.
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    • 2.Phronesis requires understanding why eudaimonia is choiceworthy for its own sake, not derived from prior instrumental reasoning about means.
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    • 3.If end-setting were derivative from non-virtue sources, virtue would merely execute predetermined goals, reducing its role to technical skill, not wisdom.
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