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    It is not the case that The shared activity of friendship is partly constitutive of human flourishing.

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    • 1.Kant's moral framework holds that virtue grounded in inclination or social reinforcement lacks the unconditional worth of duty-based motivation.
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    • 2.If friendship is constitutively necessary for flourishing, then the solitary virtuous agent—Kant's paradigm of moral worth—is rendered deficient through no fault of their own.
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    • 3.A conception of flourishing that cannot accommodate the morally autonomous solitary individual conflates contingent social conditions with necessary constituents of the good life.
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    • 1.Aristotle himself acknowledges in NE IX.8 that the virtuous person is most self-sufficient and least in need of others to sustain their commitment to virtue.
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    • 2.If self-sufficiency (autarkeia) is a mark of eudaimonia, then constitutive dependence on friendship for flourishing undermines rather than supports the Aristotelian account.
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    • 3.Friendship may be an expression or enhancement of flourishing rather than a partly constitutive condition of it, making the causal and constitutive claims conflated in the original argument.
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    • 1.Living well requires engaging in moral and intellectual activities continuously and with pleasure and interest.
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    • 2.It is often difficult to sustain interest in moral and intellectual activities without being tempted to act otherwise.
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    • 3.Friendship, through its shared values and shared activities, reinforces one's intellectual and practical understanding of such activities as worthwhile despite their difficulty.
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