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    Sound-mindedness is [always] good. — Carmelics
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    Sound-mindedness is [always] good.

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    • Sound-mindedness makes people good
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    • What makes people good is [always] good
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    • 1.Sound-mindedness (sōphrosynē) in an unjust person facilitates more effective pursuit of unjust ends.
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    • 2.A capacity that makes vicious people more effectively vicious is not itself unconditionally good.
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    • 3.Therefore sound-mindedness is only conditionally good, depending on the moral character it serves.
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    • 1.Kant argues that only a good will is good without qualification; virtues like sound-mindedness become dangerous without it.
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    • 2.Sound-mindedness in a calculating villain enhances harm by enabling controlled, disciplined wrongdoing.
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