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    It is not the case that The supporting arguments conflate contingent biographical influences on virtue-acquisition with the metaphysical question of what virtue itself consists in.

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    • 1.Virtue is inherently relational to human flourishing; its nature cannot be separated from how humans actually develop and sustain it.
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    • 2.The metaphysical 'essence' of virtue only becomes intelligible through understanding the causal processes that constitute and maintain virtuous character.
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    • 3.Drawing a sharp distinction between acquisition-mechanisms and metaphysical essence assumes a false dichotomy unsupported by virtue epistemology.
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    • 1.How someone acquires virtue (through habit, culture, upbringing) differs logically from what virtue fundamentally is as a trait or disposition.
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    • 2.Confusing origins with essence commits a genetic fallacy: a thing's causal history doesn't determine its metaphysical nature or definition.
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    • 3.Two people acquiring identical virtues through completely different biographical paths suggests virtue's essence transcends any particular origin.
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