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    Therefore pleasure's constitutive dependence on prior act... — Carmelics
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    Therefore pleasure's constitutive dependence on prior activity disqualifies it as the ultimate good, circumventing the objection by showing the added wisdom supplies the real good.

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    Key Terms

    Circumventing an objection(as used in philosophical argumentation)
    Finding a way around a criticism or problem by addressing it in a clever way rather than directly confronting it.
    The real good(as used in ethics)
    What actually matters or has true value, as opposed to what merely seems good on the surface.
    Ultimate good(as used in ethics)
    The highest or most fundamental thing that's worth pursuing for its own sake, not just as a means to something else.
    constitutive dependence(Debate over conceptualism in Kant's theory of intuition)
    A relation in which an intuition requires conceptual synthesis not merely accidentally but as a necessary condition for its capacity to relate to an object
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