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    Each human being has a natural place and duty within soci... — Carmelics
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    Each human being has a natural place and duty within society determined by individual talents

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    • 1.Each human being is born with specific individual skills and weaknesses
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    • 2.These innate talents equip each person for particular roles
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    • 1.Rousseau and Marx both demonstrate that perceived 'natural' social roles typically reflect contingent historical arrangements and power structures, not nature.
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    • 2.If talents are substantially shaped by social conditions (Bourdieu's habitus), then the 'natural place' derived from them merely reproduces existing inequalities.
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    • 1.Kant's autonomy principle holds that persons must be ends in themselves, not instruments assigned functions by their capacities as evaluated by others.
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    • 2.Assigning social duty based on talent treats persons as means to social efficiency rather than as self-legislating rational agents.
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    Regarding, finally, those things which citizens are supposed to know and do in accordance with their respective classes (referred to as b.i and b.ii above, first paragraph of this section), al-Farabi seems to think of the various trades and professions performed in the polis.[14] As the next section will reveal, he differentiates between the individual skills and weaknesses with which each human being is born. He is convinced that, equipped with these specific talents, each human being posse
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