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    It is not the case that Any human can become more virtuous through ethical cultivation.

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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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    Reasons Against

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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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