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    The state should allow as much liberty as possible rather... — Carmelics
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    The state should allow as much liberty as possible rather than actively promoting virtue

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    • 1.The virtuous agent is not created by the political structure the agent inhabits, but brings character to it
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    • 2.Political liberty creates the conditions under which individuals can fashion morally beautiful characters
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    • 3.Politics cannot directly promote virtue itself
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    • 1.Aristotle's Politics demonstrates that the polis exists not merely for life but for the good life, making civic virtue cultivation a constitutive state function.
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    • 2.Citizens shaped by vice-enabling institutions lack the rational agency required to exercise liberty meaningfully, making passive liberty self-undermining.
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    • 1.Rousseau's civic republicanism shows that natural liberty unchecked by moral education produces dependence on appetite, not genuine freedom.
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    • 2.The supporting argument's premise that politics 'cannot directly promote virtue' conflates causal inefficacy with principled prohibition, which requires independent justification.
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    Den Uyl argues that Shaftesbury does not think the state can or should actively promote virtue (Den Uyl 1998: 310–315). Schneewind makes a similar point when he writes, “The virtuous agent is not created by the political structure he inhabits. He brings his character to it” (Schneewind 1998: 309; see also 295–8, 307–9). The best political course, consequently, is for the state to allow as much liberty as possible, because that is most likely to give individuals their own opportunity to fashion m
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