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    It is not the case that True virtue includes both benevolence toward being in general and complacence in benevolence's intrinsic excellence or beauty.

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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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    • 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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