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    We can fairly be evaluated for success or failure in acqu... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Wisdom is a virtue that essentially involves the will, not merely the intellect.

    We can fairly be evaluated for success or failure in acquiring only what lies within the scope of our will.

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    The virtue of wisdom presents another set of problems for the connection of virtue with the will, which is essential to Foot’s account. Unlike other virtues, wisdom seems primarily to be an excellence of the intellect rather than the will. Yet Foot argues that just because a putative virtue concerns the intellect does not mean that the will is not also essential to it. For her, wisdom has two components. First, it includes knowledge of the all-purpose means to very general good ends. She include

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