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    Supports→Religious practice can retain meaning through consequentialist or virtue-based frameworks that require no robust libertarian free will.

    Virtue ethics centers on character development and habits. Religious practice cultivates compassion, patience, and wisdom through repetition and community, independent of libertarian freedom.

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    Key Terms

    Character development(as the core focus of virtue ethics)
    The process of strengthening and improving the kind of person you are, especially your habits, values, and how you treat others.
    Cultivates(describing how the Rotation Method produces novelty)
    Deliberately develops or encourages something to grow over time.
    Habits(as the mechanism for developing virtue)
    Actions you repeat so often they become automatic and part of who you are; virtue ethics says good habits turn into good character.
    Virtue ethics(in philosophy)
    An approach to ethics focused on developing good character traits (virtues like courage or honesty) rather than following rules or calculating outcomes.
    libertarian freedom
    The view that freedom involves a radical, indeterminist exercise of power.

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    religious practice(as contrasted with abstract theory)
    The actual rituals, beliefs, and activities that religious people perform and live out in their daily lives.

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