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    It is not the case that The state should allow as much liberty as possible rather than actively promoting virtue

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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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    • 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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