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    It is not the case that The self-effacement objection does not seriously undermine virtue ethics.

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    • 1.Virtue ethics as a practical guide requires that the virtuous agent act *from* virtue, not merely *in accordance with* it.
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    • 2.If an agent must suppress awareness of their virtuous character to act well, the motivational structure of virtue ethics is internally incoherent.
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    • 3.An ethical theory whose action-guidance undermines its own constitutive motivations is seriously, not trivially, compromised.
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    • 1.Railton's sophisticated consequentialism shows that rival theories can absorb the self-effacement worry by distinguishing criterion of rightness from decision procedure.
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    • 2.Virtue ethics lacks an analogous structural distinction that would permit agents to bracket virtuous self-conception during deliberation without theoretical cost.
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    • 3.Without such a distinction, virtue ethics faces a deeper version of self-effacement than its defenders acknowledge, one that strikes at eudaimonia itself.
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    • 1.Not all forms of virtue ethics are subject to the self-effacement objection.
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    • 2.Those forms of virtue ethics that are subject to the self-effacement objection are not seriously undermined by the problem.
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