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    This undermines the claim's universality: for agents rais... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→It is in our power to be either virtuous or vicious.

    This undermines the claim's universality: for agents raised under vicious or severely deprived conditions, the path to virtue may be practically unavailable regardless of deliberative effort.

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    Deliberative effort(as used in ethics)
    Conscious thinking and trying hard to make good decisions or improve yourself through your own willpower and reasoning.
    Practically unavailable(as used in ethics)
    Possible in theory but impossible in real life due to actual obstacles or circumstances.
    Severely deprived conditions(as used in ethics)
    Situations where someone lacks basic things they need to survive or develop properly, like food, education, safety, or caring relationships.
    Vicious conditions(as used in ethics)
    Situations where someone is surrounded by bad examples, harmful influences, or immoral behavior that teaches them to act badly.
    universality(Distinguishing the nature as such from its mode of universality)

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    Not a constitutive mark of the common nature itself, but its unique and inseparable property
    virtue(Valla's voluntarist account of virtue)
    A quality that resides in the will, governing actions to which moral qualifications are assigned.

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