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    The knowledge involved in wisdom is within the scope of the will and can fairly be the basis of moral evaluation.

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    • 1.Wisdom's knowledge concerns general good ends and all-purpose means, not specialized scientific knowledge.
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    • 2.Specialized scientific knowledge is accessible only to those with the requisite talent and opportunity.
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    • 3.Wisdom's knowledge, by contrast, is accessible to anyone who chooses to pursue it.
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    • 1.Aristotle's account of phronesis requires habituation from youth, meaning practical wisdom depends heavily on circumstances beyond one's control.
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    • 2.If the epistemic foundations of wisdom are shaped by upbringing, culture, and luck, they cannot be straightforwardly 'chosen' by the will.
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    • 3.Moral evaluation based on knowledge that is contingently inaccessible due to unchosen formative conditions violates the fairness condition the argument itself invokes.
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    • 1.Susan Wolf's 'Reason View' establishes that moral responsibility requires the ability to act in accordance with reason, but reason itself can be systematically distorted by unchosen psychological or social conditions.
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    • 2.If an agent's capacity to recognize good ends is itself impaired by factors outside voluntary control, then the knowledge involved in wisdom is not uniformly within the scope of the will.
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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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    The virtue of wisdom presents another set of problems for the connection of virtue with the will, which is essential to Foot’s account. Unlike other virtues, wisdom seems primarily to be an excellence of the intellect rather than the will. Yet Foot argues that just because a putative virtue concerns the intellect does not mean that the will is not also essential to it. For her, wisdom has two components. First, it includes knowledge of the all-purpose means to very general good ends. She include
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    Susan Wolf's 'Reason View' establishes that moral responsibility requires the ab...
    What one can acquire through choice falls within the scope of the will.
    Wisdom's knowledge concerns general good ends and all-purpose means, not special...
    Wisdom's knowledge, by contrast, is accessible to anyone who chooses to pursue i...
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