What it means to be human shape their vision of good life

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The classical definition of man is from Aristotle, that the human being is a rational animal, or more literally, the animal that can talk. Each author we've read so far emphasizes a different aspect of this definition (Mill stresses our animal relation to pleasure and justice, while Kant stresses our rationality), while Beauvoir gives a new definition entirely (that the human is defined as a mortal entity who wishes they were a god). Pick any two authors, and compare and contrast them based on what aspects of the human they emphasize. How does their sense of what it means to be human shape their vision of the good life, and how life ought best to be lived? Write 3-4 full paragraphs.

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