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    Virtuous action is grounded in the highest end for a huma... — Carmelics
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    Virtuous action is grounded in the highest end for a human being.

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    • 1.Virtue is a constituent of happiness.
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    • 2.Happiness is the highest end for a human being.
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    • 3.Constituents of the highest end are themselves grounded in that end.
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    • 1.Kant argues that virtuous action derives its moral worth from conformity to duty, not from the agent's conception of their highest end.
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    • 2.An action motivated by eudaimonia, even partially, is heteronomous and therefore lacks genuine moral worth on deontological grounds.
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    • 3.If virtuous action requires grounding in an end external to the moral law itself, virtue becomes instrumentalized rather than intrinsically obligatory.
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    • 1.G.E. Moore's consequentialism permits right action that produces maximum good even when performed by an agent wholly devoid of virtuous character.
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    • 2.If right action can be fully specified without reference to the agent's highest end or character, virtue is explanatorily redundant in grounding moral action.
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    • 3.The Aristotelian conflation of the good life for the agent with the ground of right action commits a systematic equivocation between agent-relative and agent-neutral value.
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    Like Plato, Aristotle is a eudaimonist in that he argues that virtue (including in some way the moral virtues of courage, justice and the rest) is the dominant and most important component of happiness. However, he is not claiming that the only reason to be morally virtuous is that moral virtue is a constituent of happiness. He says that we seek to have virtue and virtuous action for itself as well (Nicomachean Ethics, 1097b 1–10); not to do so is to fail even to be virtuous. In this regard, it
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