 As we will shortly see, the anchor for the view is not that of our previously surveyed positions, that to do is thereby to act, period. (And so Brewer’s view is perhaps a penumbral member of this family of positions.)  Rather, firstly, mere actions typically will not make sense outside the context of a dialectical activity, and secondly, Brewer advances but does not quite directly argue for the suggestion that dialectical activities make up everything that could count as intrinsically valuable for human beings.  Anything that is worthwhile on its own – anyway, worthwhile enough to be taken seriously as something one would try to fold into one’s life, from conversation to friendship to philosophy – belongs in this category. 