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    Freedoms of thought and discussion are necessary for fulfilling human nature as progressive beings.

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    • 1.Progressive beings seek knowledge (justified true belief), not merely true belief.
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    • 2.The justification of beliefs exercises deliberative capacities, whereas mere possession of true beliefs does not.
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    • 3.Justification requires comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
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    • 1.Aristotle's eudaimonia requires stable virtuous dispositions, which are cultivated through habituation, not open deliberation among alternatives.
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    • 2.Constant exposure to competing moral claims can destabilize the character formation necessary for genuine human flourishing.
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    • 3.A community that constrains certain discussions may better preserve the social conditions under which virtuous human nature is actually realized.
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    • 1.Plato's Republic demonstrates that unrestricted discourse grants equal standing to false and corrupting ideas, undermining rather than advancing epistemic progress.
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    • 2.If the deliberative faculties can be exercised through structured dialectic within bounded traditions, unrestricted public freedom of discussion is not a necessary condition for their exercise.
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    Mill’s claim that the value of freedom of expression lies in keeping true beliefs from becoming dogmatic reflects his view that freedoms of thought and discussion are necessary for fulfilling our natures as progressive beings (OL II 20). For instance, Mill appeals to a familiar distinction between true belief, on the one hand, and knowledge, understood as something like justified true belief, on the other hand (II 22; cf. Scanlon 1972; Ten 1980: 126–28). Progressive beings seek knowledge or just
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