I think that for most of what I’m saying, the meaning wouldn’t change too much if you replaced the word “wholesome” with “virtuous” (though the section contrasting it with virtue ethics would become more confusing to read).
As practical guidance, however, I’m deliberately piggybacking off what people already know about the words. I think the advice to make sure that you pay attention to ways in which things feel unwholesome is importantly different from (and, I hypothesize, more useful than) advice to make sure you pay attention to ways in which things feel unvirtuous. And the advice to make sure you pay attention to things which feel frobby would obviously not be very helpful, since readers will not have much of a sense of what feels frobby.
I think that for most of what I’m saying, the meaning wouldn’t change too much if you replaced the word “wholesome” with “virtuous” (though the section contrasting it with virtue ethics would become more confusing to read).
As practical guidance, however, I’m deliberately piggybacking off what people already know about the words. I think the advice to make sure that you pay attention to ways in which things feel unwholesome is importantly different from (and, I hypothesize, more useful than) advice to make sure you pay attention to ways in which things feel unvirtuous. And the advice to make sure you pay attention to things which feel frobby would obviously not be very helpful, since readers will not have much of a sense of what feels frobby.