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    Sound-mindedness is not some sort of quietness — Carmelics
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    Sound-mindedness is not some sort of quietness

    Proof of definition segmentsVirtue Ethics
    Overall Strength:64%
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    • In the case of [many] bodily activities, behaving quietly is not behaving sound-mindedly. (literally: swiftness, not quietness is more sound-minded)
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    • In the case of [many] psychological activities, behaving quietly is not behaving sound-mindedly.
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    • 1.Plato's Charmides (159b) presents quietness (hēsychia) as the initial and intuitive definition of sōphrosynē, reflecting genuine Greek moral consensus.
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    • 2.The association of sound-mindedness with orderly stillness of the soul appears in Pythagorean and Stoic traditions as cosmically grounded, not merely conventional.
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    • 3.Refuting bodily or psychological instances of non-quiet virtue does not defeat the claim that quietness constitutes the formal essence of sōphrosynē at the level of character disposition.
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    • 1.Aristotle himself acknowledges in NE IV that certain virtues are partly defined by a measured restraint that manifests phenomenologically as calm composure rather than swift action.
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    • 2.The supporting arguments commit a hasty generalization: counterexamples from specific activities cannot rule out quietness as a necessary condition of the virtuous disposition underlying those activities.
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