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    It is not the case that Natural but non-necessary desires need not be pursued.

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    • 1.Aristotle argues in the Nicomachean Ethics that eudaimonia requires the active exercise of virtuous capacities, not mere freedom from pain.
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    • 2.Many natural non-necessary desires (e.g., for aesthetic beauty or friendship beyond utility) are partly constitutive of a flourishing human life.
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    • 3.A life that systematically suppresses non-necessary natural desires may thereby fail to actualize the distinctively human excellences that define the good life.
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    • 1.Mill's higher pleasures doctrine holds that the quality of satisfaction matters, not merely its pain-relieving function.
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    • 2.If non-necessary desires track genuinely higher-order goods, their pursuit is instrumentally and intrinsically rational regardless of pain-removal.
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    • 1.Natural but non-necessary desires (e.g., desire for expensive food) vary pleasure but are not required to remove or ward off pain.
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    • 2.Only desires whose frustration causes pain need to be satisfied to achieve the blessed life.
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