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    It is not the case that A good human life requires the exercise of one's higher capacities, including deliberative capacities.

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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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    • 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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