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    The mean of reason, when properly assessed by a person of... — Carmelics
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    The mean of reason, when properly assessed by a person of true virtue, can call for heroic virtue far beyond conventional measures of reasonableness.

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    • 1.The mean of reasonableness is determined by someone of true virtue assessing circumstances correctly.
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    • 2.Circumstances sometimes demand, for example, immense courage far beyond conventional expectations.
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    • 1.Aristotle's phronimos determines the mean relative to us, not relative to an abstract ideal, making the mean inherently indexed to human psychological limits.
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    • 2.Actions requiring capacities beyond ordinary human motivation cannot function as practical norms for virtue, which must be action-guiding for actual agents.
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    • 3.Aquinas's distinction between heroic virtue and ordinary virtue in the Summa (ST II-II q.123) treats them as categorically different, not on a single continuum of reason's mean.
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    • 1.Kant's formalism holds that a genuinely rational moral standard must be universalizable, but 'heroic' demands by definition cannot be universally required of all rational agents.
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    • 2.If the mean of reason can expand indefinitely to require heroic sacrifice, the concept loses its normative determinacy and collapses into supererogation without principled limits.
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    One’s affirmative responsibilities are all conditioned by circumstances, and mostly are (conditional) implications of the Golden Rule of doing to or for others what you would wish them to do to or for you. For both these reasons, one cannot make sound judgments about what one should be doing – that is, about what is the “mean” of reasonableness – unless one’s wishes are those of a person who understands the opportunities and the circumstances well, and whose concerns and intentions are those of
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