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    It is not the case that Character is primarily formed through social practices, shared roles, and communal obligations rather than individual self-determination (Aristotle, MacIntyre).

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    • 1.Historical reformers and moral innovators (abolitionists, suffragettes) often resisted their communities' practices, showing individual judgment can supersede social roles.
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    • 2.Communities themselves are morally inconsistent and corrupt; relying on shared practices risks perpetuating injustice rather than forming genuine virtue.
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    • 3.People across radically different cultures develop similar virtues, suggesting character formation draws on universal rational capacities, not just communal transmission.
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    • 1.Humans develop moral understanding through apprenticeship in established practices (crafts, professions, families) that embody accumulated wisdom.
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    • 2.Social roles provide concrete templates for virtue that guide behavior more effectively than abstract individual reasoning about ethics.
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    • 3.Character traits like courage and honesty are intelligible only within communities that define and value them; isolated individuals cannot form them.
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