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    Challenges→The family damages itself by requiring Shun to deny himself the most important of human relationships

    A family unit defined by hierarchical role-relations cannot coherently 'damage itself' through acts of parental authority, since that authority is constitutive of the family structure itself.

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    Coherently(as describing how these functions work together)
    In a way that is logically consistent and doesn't contradict itself.
    Damage itself(the philosophical puzzle being presented about family systems)
    To harm or injure one's own structure or integrity—in this case, whether a family system can hurt itself.
    Hierarchical role-relations(describes the structure of family relationships)
    A system where family members have different ranks or positions of power—like parents being 'above' children in authority—and these differences define how they relate to each other.
    constitutive(an alternative type of relationship the grounding relation might be)
    Describes how something is made up of or formed from basic components that define its essential nature.
    parental authority

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    (Pufendorf's account in DJN VI.2.2)
    Authority over children grounded not in mere biological generation but in a tacit pact based on utility.

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