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    Supports→There is no fixed human nature that grounds ethical egoism

    Aristotle's account of humans as political animals whose flourishing requires other-regarding virtues further falsifies a fixed egoistic human nature.

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    • 1.Humans exhibit consistent cross-cultural practices of moral reciprocity, suggesting other-regarding virtues are intrinsic rather than imposed.
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    • 2.Psychological research shows infants display spontaneous empathy and fairness concerns before socialization could explain them fully.
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    • 3.Aristotle's eudaimonia model explains why pure egoism produces psychological dysfunction—humans flourish through virtue, not self-interest alone.
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    • 1.Self-interested motivations can explain apparent other-regarding behavior through reciprocal altruism and reputation management benefits.
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    • 2.Aristotle conflates social conditioning with essential nature; political requirements don't prove egoism is false, only that societies constrain it.
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    • 3.Even if flourishing requires other-regarding virtues, this shows interdependence, not that egoistic preferences don't underlie such behavior.
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