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    It is not the case that The transition from the aesthetic life to the ethical life requires a radical, unconditioned choice

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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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    • 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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