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    The transition from the aesthetic life to the ethical lif... — Carmelics
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    The transition from the aesthetic life to the ethical life requires a radical, unconditioned choice

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    • 1.The aesthetic life eventually deconstructs by demanding what it simultaneously rejects
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    • 2.Admitting that the aesthetic life has been a failure is a necessary precondition for moving beyond it
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    • 3.Making a choice for one's life as a whole from a position unattached to any particular project discloses freedom
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    • 1.Aristotelian habituation shows that ethical character develops through gradual, repeated practice rather than any single foundational act of will.
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    • 2.If virtue requires cultivated dispositions formed over time, then a singular unconditioned choice cannot constitute the transition to ethical life.
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    • 3.Kierkegaard's own account of Judge Wilhelm shows the ethical self as already embedded in social roles, suggesting evolution rather than rupture.
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    • 1.The concept of an 'unconditioned' choice is incoherent, since any act of choosing presupposes prior evaluative commitments that make some options intelligible as choices.
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    • 2.Charles Taylor's argument in 'Sources of the Self' establishes that strong evaluation is constitutive of agency, precluding a choice made from no evaluative standpoint.
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    A very different response to Hegel (and Kant) is found in the work of Søren Kierkegaard (1813–55), a religious thinker who started, like Hegel and Kant, from Lutheranism. Kierkegaard mocked Hegel constantly for presuming to understand the whole system in which human history is embedded, while still being located in a particular small part of it. On the other hand, he used Hegelian categories of thought himself, especially in his idea of the aesthetic life, the ethical life and the religious life
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