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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 1.Bernard Williams argues that integrity-constituting commitments can rationally conflict with self-preserving calculations, revealing survival as insufficient as an ultimate value.
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    • 2.If virtues are simultaneously means to and realizations of survival, the claim is circular: survival cannot independently validate virtues it already presupposes.
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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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