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    Human flourishing is constitutively pluralistic: embodied... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Fully human happiness consists in using reason well, which at its best approximates the changeless purely intellectual activity of God.

    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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    Civic participation(as used in discussions of citizenship and rights)
    Taking part in public life and community activities, like voting, attending school, working, or shopping in public spaces.
    Constitutively(describing how common knowledge relates to rationality)
    As an essential or necessary part of something; something that helps make that thing what it is.
    Embodied goods(examples of what contributes to human flourishing)
    Good things that involve your physical body and senses—like eating something delicious or hugging a friend—rather than purely mental or abstract goods.
    Instrumental(philosophy of law)
    Serving as a tool or means to achieve something else, rather than being valuable in itself.
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    (describing that flourishing has multiple sources, not just one)
    Made up of many different kinds of things that are all equally real and important, rather than reducing everything to one basic thing.
    eudaimonia(Aristotle's ethical theory; the broadest sense of the good life)
    Often translated as 'happiness'; for Aristotle, consists in being a virtuous person over a complete life, requiring both virtuous qualities/dispositions and acting on them

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