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    Any human can become more virtuous through ethical cultiv... — Carmelics
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    Any human can become more virtuous through ethical cultivation.

    Virtue Ethics
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    • 1.The state of one's qi is not fixed.
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    • 2.Through ethical cultivation, a human can clarify his qi.
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    • 3.Clearer qi manifests the virtues.
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    • 1.Aristotle argues in the Nicomachean Ethics that character (ethos) is formed through habituation in early life and becomes largely fixed in adulthood.
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    • 2.If virtuous dispositions solidify into stable second-nature traits, the capacity for radical moral transformation in mature agents is structurally limited.
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    • 3.A theory of ethical cultivation that ignores developmental constraints conflates marginal improvement with genuine character change.
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    • 1.Xunzi holds that human nature (xing) is inherently disordered, requiring external ritual norms (li) to impose virtue—not internal qi-clarification.
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    • 2.If virtue depends on external institutional structures rather than internal cultivation, access to those structures determines who can become virtuous.
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    • 3.Social inequality in access to proper ritual education entails that not all humans have equivalent practical pathways to virtue, undermining the universalist claim.
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    Neo–Confucian metaphysics, ethics, and philosophical psychology are systematically connected. Humans have the most clear qi of any being. However, some humans have especially clear qi, and as a result manifest the virtues, while others have comparatively turbid qi, and therefore are prone to vice. The state of one’s qi is not fixed, though. Through ethical cultivation, any human can clarify his qi, and thereby become more virtuous. Similarly, through laxness, one can allow one’s qi to morall
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