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    If the best life is contemplative rather than deliberativ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→A good human life requires the exercise of one's higher capacities, including deliberative capacities.

    If the best life is contemplative rather than deliberative-practical, then Mill's elevation of 'forming and revising life plans' conflates one higher capacity with the highest.

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    • 1.Contemplation involves direct intellectual apprehension of truth; deliberation requires instrumental reasoning about means.
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    • 2.Life-planning is fundamentally about future states and preferences, not present understanding—a lower cognitive mode.
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    • 3.If the highest good is self-sufficient (as classical philosophy holds), contemplation achieves this; planning does not.
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    • 1.Contemplation divorced from deliberation is empty—even philosophers must deliberate about how to live contemplatively.
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    • 2.Mill's emphasis on autonomy through life-planning reflects that humans are practical agents, not disembodied intellects.
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    • 3.The dichotomy between contemplative and deliberative may be false; the highest life might require integrating both capacities.
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