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    Virtue requires action oriented toward genuine goods, and... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Our obligation to virtue remains fully valid even under radical skepticism about external reality.

    Virtue requires action oriented toward genuine goods, and if external reality is radically uncertain, the very category of 'genuine good' collapses into mere subjective preference.

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    External reality(metaphysics (study of what exists))
    The physical world outside your own mind—the idea that objects, people, and events exist independently of whether you're thinking about them.
    Genuine good(as used in ethics)
    Something that is actually beneficial or valuable in reality, not just something that seems good or feels good temporarily.
    Radical uncertainty(as used in epistemology)
    A state of doubt so complete that you can't be sure about anything in the world, including whether your knowledge of it is accurate or trustworthy.
    Subjective preference(as used in epistemology)
    A personal opinion or taste that comes from individual feelings rather than from objective facts or evidence.
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    (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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