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    Sound-mindedness is not only [always] fine, but also [alw... — Carmelics
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    Sound-mindedness is not only [always] fine, but also [always] good.

    AestheticsVirtue Ethics
    Overall Strength:40%
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    • Sound-mindedness is [always] fine.
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    • Sound-mindedness is [always] good.
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    • 1.Aristotle argues in NE VI that moral virtues require practical wisdom (phronēsis) to be genuinely good rather than merely conditionally useful.
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    • 2.Sound-mindedness divorced from phronēsis is mere continence or natural temperance, which Aristotle distinguishes from full virtue.
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    • 3.What is not full virtue cannot be unconditionally or always good in the ethically relevant sense.
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    • 1.Sound-mindedness (sōphrosynē) in an unjust person merely makes them more effectively unjust, as Plato's Thrasymachus implies in Republic I.
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    • 2.A virtue that amplifies vice when possessed by the vicious cannot be unconditionally fine or good.
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