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    It is not the case that Human life is purposive activity, best understood through history

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    • 1.Wittgenstein and Ryle demonstrate that rule-following and habitual practice are constitutive of human life without requiring explicit purposive representation.
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    • 2.History as res gestae selectively preserves deliberate, goal-directed actions and systematically excludes the routine, embodied practices that form the bulk of human existence.
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    • 3.Therefore, identifying human life with historically-recoverable purposive activity distorts what is most pervasive and fundamental in human existence.
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    • 1.Human life contains biologically-grounded drives and unconscious motivations that resist purposive, historically-legible interpretation (Freud, Schopenhauer).
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    • 2.If significant human behavior originates below the threshold of conscious intention, then purposiveness cannot be the primary lens for understanding human life.
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    • 1.History is the study of actions of human beings done in the past
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    • 2.Because history studies human activity, it studies purposive activity
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    • 3.What nature is to things, history as res gestae is to man
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