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    Challenges→The candidate for this initiation should begin devoting himself to the beauties of the body as early as possible.

    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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    Aristotle
    Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher who lived over 2,000 years ago and is one of the most influential thinkers in Western history. He studied nearly every subject—from animals and plants to politics and ethics—and developed practical ways of thinking that shaped how people understand the world. His ideas on logic, nature, and how to live a good life are still taught and debated today because he focused on observing the real world rather than just abstract theories.
    Entrench(as describing what happens to the worry about backward causation)
    To make a problem or concern more firmly established and harder to get rid of; to strengthen rather than weaken something.
    Habituation theory(Aristotle's approach to how people develop morality)
    The idea that you become a good person by repeatedly practicing good behaviors until they become your natural habits, rather than by just learning rules intellectually.
    Moral formation(as used in ethics and criminal justice)

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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.

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