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The cardinal virtues are both the means to and the realization of one's ultimate value (long-term survival qua human being).

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1.The cardinal values are both the means to and the realization of one's ultimate value.
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2.The cardinal virtues correspond to the cardinal values.
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3.What holds for values generalizes to virtues.
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1.Aristotle's eudaimonia requires virtues as constitutive of flourishing, not merely instrumental means to a biological survival end.
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2.Reducing the telos of virtue to 'long-term survival' collapses the normative content of virtue into a descriptive biological fact.
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3.Hursthouse and Foot demonstrate that human flourishing exceeds mere survival and includes irreducibly social and rational excellences.
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