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    The Stoic wise person does everything within the scope of... — Carmelics
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    The Stoic wise person does everything within the scope of moral action well.

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    • 1.Virtues are those features that allow a thing to perform its function well.
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    • 2.Actions done in accordance with virtue are actions done well.
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    • 3.The wise person possesses all virtues and therefore performs every proper function virtuously.
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    • 1.Aristotle argues in the Nicomachean Ethics that virtuous action requires practical wisdom (phronesis) applied to particular circumstances, not universal competence across all domains.
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    • 2.No individual possesses the domain-specific knowledge required to act well across all fields (medicine, navigation, statecraft), regardless of their moral character.
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    • 3.Therefore, the Stoic conflation of moral virtue with technical excellence (techne) generates an implausibly omncompetent ideal that severs virtue from the epistemic conditions that ground it.
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    • 1.Kant's Groundwork distinguishes acting from duty (moral worth) from acting skillfully, meaning moral perfection does not entail performing every action with excellence of outcome.
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    • 2.The Stoic claim that the sage 'does everything well' smuggles in a consequentialist or perfectionist criterion that is inconsistent with the Stoic's own internalist account of virtue as residing solely in rational assent.
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    Since both ordinary people and Stoic wise men look after their health except in very extraordinary circumstances, both the sage and the ordinary person perform proper functions. A proper function becomes a fully correct action (katorthôma) only when it is perfected as an action of the specific kind to which it belongs, and so is done virtuously. In the tradition of Socratic moral theory, the Stoics regard virtues like courage and justice, and so on, as knowledge or science within the soul about
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