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    A good human life requires the exercise of one's higher c... — Carmelics
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    A good human life requires the exercise of one's higher capacities, including deliberative capacities.

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    • 1.A good human life is one that exercises one's higher capacities.
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    • 2.A person's higher capacities include deliberative capacities such as forming, revising, assessing, selecting, and implementing one's own plan of life.
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    • 1.Many traditions (Stoic, Buddhist, Daoist) identify the good life with acceptance and non-striving rather than deliberative self-authorship.
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    • 2.Deliberative capacity presupposes a stable autonomous self, which these traditions argue is itself a philosophical fiction that distorts wellbeing.
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    • 1.Aristotle's own eudaimonism holds that the highest human good is contemplation (theoria), not practical deliberation about one's plan of life.
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    • 2.If the best life is contemplative rather than deliberative-practical, then Mill's elevation of 'forming and revising life plans' conflates one higher capacity with the highest.
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    Though important in its own right, Mill’s defense of freedom of thought and discussion provides the resources for a more general defense of basic liberties of thought and action that Mill offers in the balance of On Liberty. A good human life is one that exercises one’s higher capacities (I 11, 20; III 1–10); a person’s higher capacities include her deliberative capacities, in particular, capacities to form, revise, assess, select, and implement her own plan of life. This kind of self-government
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