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  1. Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations, P.M.S. Hacker and Joachim Schulte (Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2009), §593 p. 164.

  2. This is detailed in Lisa Haugaard, “Torture 101.” In These Times, (October 14, 1996), 14–16.

  3. Julia Annas, Intelligent Virtue (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 16 and passim.

  4. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, ed. and trans. Sarah Broadie and Christopher Rowe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), 1105a28–33.

  5. Alison Hills “The Intellectuals And The Virtues”, Ethics Vol 21 (October 2015), 7.

  6. Op. Cit. 11 She rather wittily personifies these views in terms of an intellectualist Julia and a naif Nomy both of whom bear more than a passing resemblance to Annas and Nomy Appaly.

  7. I fear that Julia Hills is ankle deep in them.

  8. I am tempted to call this the “Argument From David Benatar”.

  9. Two philosophers who have given extensive thought to the relationship between virtue and practical reason are Daniel C. Russell Practical Intelligence and the Virtues (Oxford: OUP, 2009) and Hursthouse, Rosalind. “What does the Aristotelian phronimos know?” In Perfecting virtue: New essays on Kantian ethics and virtue ethics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011): 38–57.

  10. Hills, 7.

  11. The point was first made explicitly by C Wright Mills in his masterly “Situated Actions And Vocabularies Of Motive”, American Sociological Review Vol. 5, No. 6 (Dec., 1940), pp. 904–913.

  12. Ibid.

  13. Interview with Yukiyoshi Takamura Aikido Journal 117, Fall 1999 found at https://shindai.com/?page_id=438.

  14. Nitobe, Inazo Bushido: The Soul Of Japan (Tokyo and London: Tuttle Publishing, 1969), 15.

  15. Op. cit.

  16. Hitosu, A. Ten Precepts Abernethy, I. (trans). Found at https://iainabernethy.co.uk/article/practical-karate.

  17. I speak here from personal experience.

  18. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuhari.

  19. Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue (London: Bloomsbury, 1980), 221.

  20. Julia Annas, “Virtue ethics and the charge of egoism.” Morality and self-interest (2008): 205–21.

  21. Brian Mackie personal communication.

  22. Matt Stichter, “Practical Skills and Practical Wisdom in Virtue “Australasian journal of philosophy 94, 3 (2016), 435.

  23. Op. cit.

  24. Stichter Matt The Skilfulness of Virtue Cambridge: CUP (2018) 23.

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Hamilton, R.P. The Fist of Virtue: The Virtue-Skill Analogy and Traditional Martial Arts. J Value Inquiry 55, 371–385 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-021-09821-1

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