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    The good person's views should be regarded as authoritative by other members of the community.

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    • 1.The good person is 'as it were a standard and measure'.
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    • 2.The good person's reasoning succeeds in discovering what is best in each situation.
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    • 1.Epistemic authority over practical matters requires not just virtue but also publicly verifiable criteria, which the 'good person' standard lacks.
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    • 2.Without transparent, contestable criteria for identifying the good person, the standard collapses into circular reasoning: the good person is authoritative because they are good.
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    • 3.Rousseau and deliberative democrats (Habermas) demonstrate that legitimate political authority derives from inclusive public reasoning, not the excellence of designated individuals.
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    • 1.Mill's arguments in On Liberty establish that even genuinely wise individuals systematically lack access to the full range of perspectives needed for sound practical judgment in diverse communities.
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    • 2.Concentrating authoritative judgment in any single person or class, however virtuous, forecloses the epistemic benefits of disagreement that Millian pluralism identifies as essential to collective practical knowledge.
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    To say that such a person “sees” what to do is simply a way of registering the point that the good person’s reasoning does succeed in discovering what is best in each situation. He is “as it were a standard and measure” in the sense that his views should be regarded as authoritative by other members of the community. A standard or measure is something that settles disputes; and because good people are so skilled at discovering the mean in difficult cases, their advice must be sought and heeded.
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