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It is not the case that 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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Without some principle to arbitrate competing goods, phronimos judgments become arbitrary and lack defensible grounds for others to evaluate them.
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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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Practitioners who claim to read situations directly often implicitly rely on deep value commitments they haven't made explicit.
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Moral situations are contextually rich in ways that abstract principles cannot capture without distortion or loss of morally relevant detail.
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Expert moral judgment, like expert perception in other domains, involves direct recognition of salient features without conscious rule-application.
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Invoking a single covering value often obscures trade-offs and treats incommensurable goods as artificially commensurable.
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