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    Individuals should be given freedom and space to develop ... — Carmelics
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    Individuals should be given freedom and space to develop their own character

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    • 1.Different individuals have different natures
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    • 2.Because individuals have different natures, they must discover and develop their own personalities and ways of living
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    • 3.Freedom and space are necessary conditions for that self-discovery and development
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    • 1.Character is primarily formed through social practices, shared roles, and communal obligations rather than individual self-determination (Aristotle, MacIntyre).
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    • 2.A self conceived apart from its constitutive community lacks the narrative and normative framework necessary to make meaningful choices about its own development (MacIntyre, Sandel).
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    • 3.Freedom understood as space from social constraint therefore undermines rather than enables genuine character formation.
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    • 1.The premise that individuals possess a pre-social 'nature' to be discovered presupposes a Cartesian self that Hegel and later communitarians argue is philosophically untenable.
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    • 2.If the self is constituted through recognition by others and participation in ethical life (Sittlichkeit), then external freedom is insufficient and social integration is a necessary condition for self-realization (Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit).
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    Mill’s argument for freedom of character—“Individuality” (Liberty, XVIII: 260)—is given in chapter 3 of On Liberty, and is two-pronged. On the one hand, he argues that it is best for individuals that they are given freedom and space to develop their own character. On the other, he argues that it best for society, too. Mill’s argument for the former is Romantic in tone, maintaining that, because different individuals have different natures, they must be given space to discover and develop their o
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