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    Challenges→Our obligation to virtue remains fully valid even under radical skepticism about external reality.

    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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    Key Terms

    Economy of conduct(as Shaftesbury's ethical system)
    A system or framework for how people should behave, based on the idea that nature has built-in rules for living well.
    Moral norms(as the ethical rules embedded in societies)
    Widely accepted rules about right and wrong behavior that members of a community are expected to follow.
    Shaftesbury(history of philosophy)
    An 18th-century English philosopher (Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury) who wrote about morality and argued that reason could guide us toward good behavior.
    Teleological structure(describing how the natural order is supposedly organized)
    The idea that nature or the world is organized around specific goals or purposes—like a machine designed to reach certain ends.
    ontological foundation

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    A basic, fundamental ground or starting point that explains why something exists or what it truly is at its core.
    radical skepticism(Epistemology; contrast with more moderate skeptical positions)
    A form of skepticism that doubts the laws of logic and/or refuses to accept any starting point as uncontentious, making engagement with standard philosophical arguments impossible.

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