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    Aristotle's eudaimonism holds that human dignity is const... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Dignity is not a matter of degree and cannot be diminished or lost through vice nor increased through virtue.

    Aristotle's eudaimonism holds that human dignity is constituted by the actualization of our rational and moral capacities, not merely their possession.

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    • 1.Potential capacities without exercise are metaphysically inert—dignity requires actualization, not mere biological possibility.
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    • 2.A person in irreversible coma possesses rational capacities but lacks dignity because actualization is impossible.
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    • 3.Moral development requires practice; virtues emerge through habituation, making actualization constitutive of moral character.
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    • 1.Infants and the severely disabled possess dignity despite limited actualization capacity, suggesting possession, not use, grounds it.
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    • 2.Tying dignity to actualization makes dignity contingent on circumstance, ability, and effort—creating troubling hierarchies.
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    • 3.Aristotle's own virtue ethics emphasizes intrinsic human form and nature as the basis for dignity, not external performance.
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