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Through this interpretative lens, the author reconsiders key Cartesian topics: the ideal inquirer, the role of clear and distinct ideas, the relation of these to the will, memory, the nature of intuition and deduction, the nature, content and elusiveness of 'I', and the tenability of the doctrine of the creation of eternal truths. 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These objections define the shape, scope,  and  substance of the book. Collectively, they unveil several fault lines, a  few hitherto unsuspected. Sarkar argues that notwithstanding the novel,  intriguing answers to old, familiar ethical questions, the answers are  so fraught with difficulties, that virtue ethics – as a philosophical  moral tradition – is best seen as badly in need of repair and  reformation. 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