#21 - Orator: Moral excellence can be achieved only by repeatedly overcoming inclinations to do

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Complete Question Explanation

Must Be True. The correct answer choice is (E).

Answer choice (A):

Answer choice (B):

Answer choice (C):

Answer choice (D):

Answer choice (E): This is the correct answer choice.

This explanation is still in progress. Please post any questions below!

[katnyc]

Hello can someone please go over this in detail. I chose answer choice C.

Thank you

[Luke Haqq]

Hi katnyc!

We can break this stimulus down into several conditional statements. At the outset we have, "Moral excellence can be achieved only by repeatedly overcoming inclinations to do the wrong thing." This can be diagrammed as:

moral excellence overcome inclination to do wrong

We also have: "the only way to become a morally virtuous person is through the achievement of moral excellence." This can be diagrammed as:

morally virtuous moral excellence

We can chain these two together:

morally virtuous moral excellence overcome inclination to do wrong

The question stem indicates this is a must be true question, and (E) must be true. That answer choice states, "Every morally virtuous person has been inclined to do something that is wrong." The above chain confirms that this must be true--it indicates that if one has a morally virtuous person, that person must have achieved moral excellence, which itself requires that the person overcame inclinations to do wrong.