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    Challenges→Virtues do not function as invariant reasons for action

    Rosalind Hursthouse's account of virtue ethics holds that a virtue reliably motivates right action across relevantly similar cases, constituting a structural invariance in practical reasoning.

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    Relevantly similar cases(as the range of situations where a virtue works)
    Situations that are alike in the ways that matter morally; situations where the same moral principles apply.
    Reliably motivates(as describing how virtues guide behavior)
    Consistently and dependably causes someone to want to do something; happens regularly, not just by accident or once in a while.
    Right action(as what virtues are said to motivate)
    An action that is morally good or correct; what a person ought to do in a given situation.
    Rosalind Hursthouse(as a philosopher arguing about virtue and morality)
    A contemporary British philosopher who specializes in virtue ethics and animal ethics; she's known for reviving and developing Aristotle's ideas about how being a good person means developing good character traits and habits.

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    Structural invariance(as used in logic and mathematics)
    The property of staying unchanged in form or pattern when you look at different but equivalent logical structures.
    Virtue ethics(in philosophy)
    An approach to ethics focused on developing good character traits (virtues like courage or honesty) rather than following rules or calculating outcomes.
    practical reasoning(Central to the full attribution of intentional agency)
    The capacity to treat the contents of mental attitudes as premises in reasoning that leads to action
    virtue(Valla's voluntarist account of virtue)
    A quality that resides in the will, governing actions to which moral qualifications are assigned.

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