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The virtues are good. — Carmelics

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The virtues are good.

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1.Virtues are perfections of our rationality.
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2.Only rationally perfected thoughts and decisions can have the features of harmony and order in which goodness itself consists.
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1.A trait is good only if it reliably produces good outcomes across contexts, not merely by expressing rational order.
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2.Virtues like courage and honesty demonstrably produce harm in adversarial or deceptive social environments.
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3.Therefore virtues are instrumentally contingent, not intrinsically good, contra the rationalist perfectionist claim.
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1.Nietzsche's genealogical analysis shows that canonical virtues—humility, meekness, obedience—were valorized by the weak to constrain the strong.
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2.A trait whose 'goodness' originates from ressentiment and power inversion reflects social utility for the oppressed, not objective rational perfection.
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3.The harmony and order invoked as constitutive of goodness are themselves historically contingent valuations, not metaphysical facts.
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They argue that health, pleasure, beauty, strength, wealth, good reputation, and noble birth are neither good nor bad. Since they can be used well or badly and the good is invariably good, these assets are not good. The virtues, however, are good (DL VII 102–103), since they are perfections of our rationality, and only rationally perfected thoughts and decisions can possibly have the features of harmony and order in which goodness itself consists. Since possessing and exercising virtue is happin

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