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    Basic liberties are important — Carmelics
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    Basic liberties are important

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    • 1.Basic liberties are necessary conditions for reflective self-direction and self-realization
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    • 2.Reflective self-direction and self-realization constitute the good life under Millian perfectionism
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    By contrast, Mill is a perfectionist liberal who eschews neutrality about the good. According to Millian perfectionism, the good life is not defined in sectarian terms as consisting in a particular set of activities. Rather, the good life is understood in terms of the exercise of capacities for practical deliberation that can be realized in diverse, though limited, ways. Basic liberties are important because they are necessary conditions for this sort of reflective self-direction and self-realiz
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