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    If flourishing admits genuine plurality, then a life cent... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The best life for human beings is a life lived in accordance with reason.

    If flourishing admits genuine plurality, then a life centered on aesthetic creation or deep personal love may be best for some without privileging reason.

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    • 1.Human capacities are genuinely diverse: aesthetic sensibility, emotional depth, and rational reflection are distinct human excellences.
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    • 2.Empirical evidence shows different individuals flourish through different primary pursuits without deficiency or pathology.
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    • 3.Privileging reason as the sole path to flourishing imposes a contingent cultural preference as universal necessity.
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    • 1.Aesthetic creation and deep love require rational judgment to sustain them: evaluating what's worth creating or whom to trust.
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    • 2.If flourishing is genuinely plural, the claim itself needs rational defense—making reason inescapably foundational.
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    • 3.Without some evaluative framework, 'flourishing' becomes vacuous: we need reasons to distinguish flourishing from mere preference-satisfaction.
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