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    It is not the case that The Stoic wise person does everything within the scope of moral action well.

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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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    • 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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