Abstract
The moral worth of an action is not solely dependant on the temporally extended character of the agent, as the majority of the proponents of virtue ethics (including Philippa Foot) claim. The compatibility of the positive judgment of a phronimos and the positive judgment of actions which involve great effort in the overcoming of agent-relative barriers to action, in other words, actions, which conform to the Kantian concept of virtue as strength of will (with their possible uniqueness and their limited temporal nature), must be explained by any theory of moral worth. Additionally, no judgment of the moral worth of character (which is necessarily temporally extended) can be justly made without taking into account judgments of worth which attend to certain temporally limited actions.