Aristotle's habituation theory holds that early moral formation shapes character toward its object, making early devotion to bodily beauty likely to entrench superficial valuation.
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The process of helping someone develop better character and ethical values, often through education or guidance rather than punishment.
Object (in philosophical sense)(character is shaped toward its object (toward something specific))
The goal or target that something is directed toward; what you're focusing on or aiming at.
Superficial valuation(caring mainly about physical beauty rather than deeper qualities)
Judging things as important based only on how they look on the surface, without thinking deeply about what really matters underneath.
character(Semantic theory of indexical expressions; terminology due to Kaplan (1989))
A rule which determines the content of an expression given a context of utterance; formally, a function (or something that determines a function) from contexts to contents.