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    Humans virtually inevitably misconstrue their own interes... — Carmelics
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    Humans virtually inevitably misconstrue their own interests and pursue them in misguided ways.

    Afterlife & DeathEternal Conscious Torment
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    • 1.We humans emerge and begin making choices in a context of ambiguity, ignorance, and misperception.
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    • 2.Behind our earliest choices lie a host of genetically determined inclinations and environmental (including social and cultural) influences.
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    • 3.As young children, we initially pursue our own needs and interests as we perceive (or misperceive) them.
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    • 1.Aristotle's account of eudaimonia holds that humans possess a natural rational capacity to discern genuine flourishing through habituation and reflection.
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    • 2.If practical wisdom (phronesis) is an achievable human excellence, then systematic misconstrual of one's interests is the exception, not the virtual inevitability.
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    • 3.The supporting argument conflates the causal origins of beliefs with their epistemic status, committing a genetic fallacy about rational self-knowledge.
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    • 1.Kant's transcendental unity of apperception entails that rational agents have a priori access to the moral law through pure practical reason, independent of contingent inclinations.
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    • 2.If agents can reliably identify the categorical imperative and bind their will to it, then misconstrual of genuine interests is not virtually inevitable but contingently corrigible.
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    The ideas of heaven and hell are also closely associated with the religious idea of salvation, which in turn rests upon a theological interpretation of the human condition. Even the non-religious can perhaps agree that, for whatever reason, we humans begin our earthly lives with many imperfections and with no (conscious) awareness of God. We also emerge and begin making choices in a context of ambiguity, ignorance, and misperception, and behind our earliest choices lie a host of genetically determined inclinations and environmental (including social and cultural) influences. As young children,...
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    Validity: The passage explicitly presents these three factors—the context of ambiguity/ignorance/misperception, genetically and environmentally determined influences, and children's pursuit of perceived interests—as collectively guaranteeing that humans would repeatedly misconstrue their interests and pursue them in misguided ways.

    Confidence: The text explicitly presents these premises as jointly explaining the conclusion using 'virtually guarantees'.

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