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    The practically wise agent reads the morally salient feat... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→There must be a 'covering value' or 'what matters' that has content beyond the values and the circumstances of the choice.

    The practically wise agent reads the morally salient features of particular situations without invoking a covering value to adjudicate between competing goods.

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    • 1.Moral situations are contextually rich in ways that abstract principles cannot capture without distortion or loss of morally relevant detail.
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    • 2.Expert moral judgment, like expert perception in other domains, involves direct recognition of salient features without conscious rule-application.
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    • 3.Invoking a single covering value often obscures trade-offs and treats incommensurable goods as artificially commensurable.
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    • 1.Without some principle to arbitrate competing goods, phronimos judgments become arbitrary and lack defensible grounds for others to evaluate them.
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    • 2.The claim that perception requires no covering value presupposes what it needs to show—that perception alone can settle genuine moral conflicts.
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    • 3.Practitioners who claim to read situations directly often implicitly rely on deep value commitments they haven't made explicit.
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