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    It is not the case that Stressing reward and punishment cannot make people more virtuous, and may make them less so

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    • 1.People who dwell on reward and punishment become overly concerned with their own self-interest and private interest
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    • 2.Excessive self-interest insensibly diminishes affections towards public good and the interest of society
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    • 3.Excessive self-interest introduces a narrowness of spirit incompatible with virtue
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    • 1.Kant argued that actions performed from inclination toward duty have moral worth, while actions performed merely for reward reveal heteronomous motivation.
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    • 2.A moral agent whose virtuous conduct is contingent on external sanctions will abandon that conduct whenever sanctions are removed or unenforceable.
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    • 3.Genuine virtue requires that good affections be intrinsically motivating; virtue conditioned on reward is therefore not virtue but calculated compliance.
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    • 1.Deci and Ryan's self-determination theory demonstrates empirically that extrinsic rewards systematically undermine intrinsic motivation through a crowding-out effect.
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    • 2.If reward and punishment supplant intrinsic moral motivation, the agent's character becomes structurally dependent on external governance rather than internal virtue.
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    • 3.Aristotle's account of eudaimonia requires that virtuous action flow from stable character dispositions, not from instrumental calculation about consequences to oneself.
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