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    Challenges→All uses of one's capacity for intentional sexual satisfaction must be reserved to marriage, and within marriage to truly marital intercourse.

    Aristotelian flourishing (eudaimonia) is indexed to the capacities and circumstances of individual persons, not a single normative life-pattern.

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    • 1.Humans have radically different natural capacities (cognitive, physical, social); a universal formula ignores these differences.
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    • 2.Contextual factors (culture, historical period, available opportunities) make uniform prescriptions about the good life implausible.
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    • 3.Aristotle emphasizes actualizing one's potential; potential varies by person, so flourishing must be individually indexed.
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    • 1.Complete relativism about flourishing undermines ethical guidance; without shared standards, we cannot evaluate competing life-paths.
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    • 2.Aristotle identifies universal human functions (reason, virtue, social cooperation) that ground eudaimonia across all persons.
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    • 3.If flourishing is purely indexed to individual circumstances, we lose grounds to critique harmful desires or unjust social arrangements.
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