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    In Marcuse's diagnosis, objective alienation still obtain... — Carmelics
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    In Marcuse's diagnosis, objective alienation still obtains in advanced capitalist societies even when individuals report satisfaction with their circumstances.

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    • 1.Individuals in advanced capitalist societies identify themselves with their estranged circumstances and gain satisfaction from them.
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    • 2.Subjective experience of satisfaction does not eliminate the objective conditions of alienation.
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    • 1.John Stuart Mill's competent-judge criterion holds that preferences formed under conditions of exposure and reflection carry genuine epistemic authority about wellbeing.
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    • 2.If individuals in advanced capitalist societies, having access to alternatives, consistently endorse their circumstances upon reflection, their satisfaction constitutes prima facie evidence against objective alienation.
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    • 3.Marcuse's framework structurally immunizes itself from falsification by dismissing all reported satisfaction as ideologically distorted, violating basic standards of empirical adequacy.
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    • 1.Attributing 'false consciousness' to satisfied individuals presupposes an external normative standard of authentic flourishing that Marcuse never adequately justifies.
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    • 2.Without a non-circular account of authentic needs, the distinction between genuine and manufactured satisfaction collapses into paternalism.
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    Situation (ii) consists of a social world containing objective, but not subjective, alienation – a situation that can be characterised as one of ‘pure objective alienation’ (Hardimon 1994: 120). It is perhaps not too much of a stretch to think of this situation as corresponding, very roughly, to one of the Frankfurt School’s more nightmarish visions of contemporary capitalist society. (The Frankfurt School is the colloquial label given to several generations of philosophers and social theorists,
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