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    Liberties of action — including freedom of association, f... — Carmelics
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    Liberties of action — including freedom of association, freedom of worship, and freedom to choose one's occupation — are necessary for self-government.

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    • 1.Self-government requires not only the formation of choices but also the implementation of those choices.
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    • 2.Implementation of choices requires liberties of action such as freedom of association, freedom of worship, and freedom to choose one's occupation.
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    • 1.Self-government, properly understood, consists in rational autonomy — the capacity to govern oneself by reason — not the exercise of arbitrary choice across life domains.
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    • 2.Rational autonomy can be fully realized under significant external constraints on action, as Kant argued that moral freedom is compatible with civil unfreedom.
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    • 3.Therefore, liberties of action are instrumentally useful but not constitutively necessary for self-government.
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    • 1.Republican self-government historically required subordination of individual liberty to civic virtue, as Rousseau's general will and Aristotle's polis both demonstrate.
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    • 2.Unconstrained liberties of association, worship, and occupation can fragment civic solidarity and undermine the collective self-determination that genuine democratic self-governance requires.
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    • 3.Thus, certain liberties of action may be inimical rather than necessary to the deepest form of political self-government.
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    Though important in its own right, Mill’s defense of freedom of thought and discussion provides the resources for a more general defense of basic liberties of thought and action that Mill offers in the balance of On Liberty. A good human life is one that exercises one’s higher capacities (I 11, 20; III 1–10); a person’s higher capacities include her deliberative capacities, in particular, capacities to form, revise, assess, select, and implement her own plan of life. This kind of self-government
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