Cf carlsmiths on sincerity, Weils attention is necessary to ensure internal coherence actually cares about something important. Nero could have internal coherence it seems. Ideally something about the preconditions for norm formation e.g. Korsgaard requires this kind of serious attention to others, so receiving the benefits of internal coherence actually requires this attention and its mutually reinforcing.
Major benefit of internal coherence and openness is that it implies common knowledge between subagents, and this lets internal norms form in a non coercive way. Think of other bebeficial relationships and their game theoretic bebefits, e.g. comparative advantage, gains from trade. Maybe virtues are individuated as buckets of comparative advantage wrt pursuing the total space of reasons
Boys a liar pt. 2: the boys a liar, he doesnt see ya, youre not looking at me boy
Weil - the beautiful captures our desire, giving it an object that is present and prevents it flying off towards the future. Aesthetics and disinterested liking
To desire friendship is a great fault. Friendship should be a gratuitous joy like those afforded by art or life. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired: it is to be exercised, (it is a virtue). Love in the Time of Teletransporters Veganism and caring for your pet
This is also linked to Murdoch’s ideal of attentive but passive aesthetic appreciation and Barthes’ ideal of active writerly participation.