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    Fully human happiness consists in using reason well, which at its best approximates the changeless purely intellectual activity of God.

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    • 1.Reason is the biologically highest constitutive capacity of human beings.
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    • 2.The best and most pleasant life form is the changeless purely intellectual activity of God.
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    • 3.Human pleasure tracks the perfection of current activities and thus proximity to that highest life form.
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    • 1.Human flourishing is constitutively pluralistic: embodied goods like friendship, civic participation, and sensory pleasure are not merely instrumental but partially constitutive of eudaimonia.
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    • 2.Aristotle's own account in NE I and IX treats political and social virtues as non-derivative components of the best human life, not approximations of divine contemplation.
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    • 3.A life that subordinates relational and practical virtues to intellectual activity fails humans as the political animals they essentially are, producing an inhuman rather than superhuman ideal.
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    • 1.The Stoic and later Kantian traditions establish that moral virtue grounded in rational agency is complete in itself and does not derive its authority from approximating any external divine standard.
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    • 2.If fully human happiness required approximating God's changeless intellectualism, then the morally virtuous person who lacks contemplative capacity would be condemned to a lesser life, which conflicts with the categorical primacy of practical reason.
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    Aristotle’s account of life as a teleologically and hierarchically unified system of biological capacities allowed him to give a unified account of pleasure while discriminating systematically among different kinds and instances according to their ranks in his value-laden hierarchy of life capacities and their functionings. Each activity, when unimpeded and perfected, on his view, gives rise to its own specific ‘supervenient’ (arising from a preexisting ground) pleasure, differentiated in kind f
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