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    The accumulation of life and pleasure, and the passive co... — Carmelics
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    The accumulation of life and pleasure, and the passive contemplation thereof, are not our only interests.

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    • 1.We also have active, forward-looking goals and concerns.
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    • 2.For many of us, these active pursuits, and not passive interests, are central to our identities, our fundamental values and commitments.
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    • 1.Hedonist theories (Bentham, early Mill) hold that all apparent non-hedonic interests are instrumentally reducible to pleasure and pain avoidance.
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    • 2.Active pursuits and forward-looking goals derive their motivational force entirely from the anticipated or realized pleasures they produce.
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    • 3.If all non-hedonic interests are thus reducible, the claim that we have irreducibly non-hedonic interests is empirically unsubstantiated.
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    • 1.Parfit's reductionist view of personal identity implies that future-directed goals may not constitute genuine ongoing interests of a persisting self.
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    • 2.If there is no robust persisting self to bear active, forward-looking concerns, those concerns cannot be foundational to personal identity in the way the supporting argument assumes.
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    Whether or not we have the extensive bias described by Parfit, it is true that the accumulation of life and pleasure, and the passive contemplation thereof, are not our only interests. We also have active, forward–looking goals and concerns. Engaging in such pursuits has its own value; for many of us, these pursuits, and not passive interests, are central to our ‘identities’, our fundamental values and commitments. However, we cannot make and pursue plans for our past. We must project our plans (our self–realization) into the future, which explains our forward bias. (We could have been devisin...
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    Validity: The premises are explicitly stated in the passage and directly support the conclusion that passive accumulation and contemplation are not our only interests, by identifying additional active, forward-looking interests we possess.

    Confidence: High confidence. Explicitly stated.

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