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    It is not the case that Virtuous action is grounded in the highest end for a human being.

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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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    • 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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