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    True virtue includes both benevolence toward being in gen... — Carmelics
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    True virtue includes both benevolence toward being in general and complacence in benevolence's intrinsic excellence or beauty.

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    • 1.True virtue aims at the good of being in general.
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    • 2.Truly virtuous people love being and benevolence.
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    • 3.Truly virtuous people delight in benevolence for its own sake, not only because it promotes the general good.
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    • 1.Kant argues that moral worth requires acting from duty alone, not from any affective delight in virtue's beauty.
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    • 2.Complacence in benevolence's beauty introduces an aesthetic pleasure that makes virtue contingent on sensory or emotional response.
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    • 3.A virtue grounded partly in aesthetic relish is heteronomous, deriving its motive from inclination rather than rational law.
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    • 1.Hutcheson distinguishes moral approbation from self-interested pleasure, but Edwards collapses this by making complacence a component of virtue itself.
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    • 2.If complacence in benevolence's beauty is itself part of true virtue, then virtue becomes self-referentially circular, requiring prior virtuous perception to recognize virtue.
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    True virtue aims at the good of being in general and therefore also prizes the disposition that promotes it. Truly virtuous people thus love two things — being and benevolence. They not only value benevolence because it promotes the general good, however; they also “relish” or delight in it for its own sake. Hence, while virtue “most essentially consists in benevolence to being” (True Virtue, 1765; Edwards 1957–, vol. 8, 540), in a wider sense it includes not only benevolence but also “complacen
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    True virtue aims at the good of being in general.
    True virtue consists in benevolence to being and complacence (delight) in moral ...
    Truly virtuous people delight in benevolence for its own sake, not only because ...
    Truly virtuous people love being and benevolence.
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