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    The inclusive-dominance interpretation of theoretical con... — Carmelics
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    The inclusive-dominance interpretation of theoretical contemplation faces a problem of coherence.

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    • 1.Aristotle assigns theoria a categorically different value-status than practical virtues, calling it divine rather than merely human (NE X.7).
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    • 2.A life structured around a divine activity cannot coherently also be structured around essentially human political engagement without ranking one as merely instrumental.
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    • 3.If contemplation is truly dominant, political virtue reduces to a mere condition for contemplation, hollowing out its intrinsic worth as Aristotle elsewhere defends it.
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    • 1.Cooper's inclusive reading requires that moral virtues contribute constitutively to eudaimonia, yet Aristotle explicitly reserves the term 'most happy' for the contemplative life alone (NE X.8 1178b7).
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    • 2.A coherent account of happiness cannot simultaneously treat an activity as constitutive of happiness and as subordinate to a single dominant component without equivocation on 'happiness'.
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    • 1.The inclusive-dominance interpretation holds contemplation to be the principal but not exclusive constituent of happiness.
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    • 2.Giving proper weight to theoretical contemplation leaves little genuine interest in moral goods arising from political nature.
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    • 3.Integrating activities as apparently incompatible as theoretical contemplation and active moral engagement into a single coherent life is difficult.
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    In the end, however, he palliates the differences, leaving the possibility for some way to harmonize the two (1178a30). The differences between the two lives are rooted in the different aspects of the soul. Moral virtues belong to the appetites and desires of the sensory soul – the part obviously associated with the active political life, when its activities are brought under the guidance and control of excellent practical thought and judgment. The “highest” virtues, those belonging to the scien
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