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    Virtue ethical accounts are not undermined by the adequacy objection

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    • 1.The adequacy objection is most compelling against versions of virtue ethics that attempt to define all senses of 'right action' in terms of virtues
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    • 2.A virtue ethical account need not reduce all normative concepts to virtues and vices
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    • 3.A virtue ethical account only requires that virtue is not reduced to a more fundamental normative concept and that some normative concepts are explained in terms of virtue and vice
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    • 1.The adequacy objection applies not only to reductive accounts but to any virtue ethics that cannot specify action-guidance without prior appeal to non-virtue norms.
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    • 2.When Rosalind Hursthouse's 'v-rules' instruct agents to act courageously, determining what counts as courageous in novel cases requires independent criteria of right action.
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    • 3.A virtue ethics that defers to situational judgment without derivable action-guidance fails the adequacy standard even on its own non-reductive terms.
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    • 1.The concession in P2-P3 that virtue ethics need not reduce all normative concepts to virtue implicitly grants that some normative concepts are more fundamental than virtue.
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    • 2.If concepts like harm, fairness, or welfare must anchor virtue attributions, then virtue ethics becomes explanatorily parasitic on rival frameworks such as consequentialism or contractualism.
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    • 3.An account that is non-reductive in the way P3 describes cannot coherently claim that virtue is not itself reducible to a more fundamental normative concept.
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    As we observed in section 2, a virtue ethical account need not attempt to reduce all other normative concepts to virtues and vices. What is required is simply (i) that virtue is not reduced to some other normative concept that is taken to be more fundamental and (ii) that some other normative concepts are explained in terms of virtue and vice. This takes the sting out of the adequacy objection, which is most compelling against versions of virtue ethics that attempt to define all of the senses of
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