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- W1973105420 abstract "Neo-Aristotelian ethical naturalists generally claim that human beings need virtues, where their claim is understood to mean that human beings need virtues in order to flourish or prosper. They aim to establish a connection between goodness and flourishing for human beings. Advocates of this view must respond to the apparent possibility that we can be good human beings without flourishing or be flourishing human beings without being good. Rosalind Hursthouse argues that being virtuous is the only reliable path if we want to flourish, just as a modest diet and exercise are the only reliable way to become healthy. Yet, as Julia Annas points out, this argument is unsatisfactory. There are circumstances, such as living in a depraved society, in which it would not benefit someone to live virtuously, and it is reasonable to ask why human beings should commit themselves to virtue when the desired result, to flourish, relies on many factors that are beyond our control. In addition to the contingencies of the world, there are contingencies of our psychology. As Nietzsche and, more recently, Bernard Williams argue, it is at least equally plausible to believe that human psychology is such that instead of being fulfilled by morality, we will instead be frustrated by it. As Williams puts it, the Aristotelian view seems to presuppose an inner nisus to virtues, which is called into question by Darwinian biology, since it is ‘‘an open question whether the evolutionary success of humanity, in its extremely brief period of existence, may not rest on a rather" @default.
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- W1973105420 title "Ethical Naturalism and the Constitution of Agency" @default.
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