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    It is not the case that If virtue requires perceiving beauty in actions and souls as primary, then orienting early education toward bodies cultivates a disposition incompatible with eudaimonia.

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    • 1.Physical education can cultivate virtues like courage, discipline, and temperance—goods integral to eudaimonia itself.
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    • 2.The body and soul are not separate pursuits; bodily excellence can express and reinforce virtue perception.
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    • 3.Early bodily focus may be preparatory, not incompatible—base development can support later perception of beauty in souls.
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    • 1.Habituation in bodily pursuits trains attention toward external goods, making inner virtue development psychologically difficult.
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    • 2.Eudaimonia requires recognizing beauty in moral character; early bodily focus establishes competing value hierarchies.
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    • 3.Virtue perception is a learned skill; early education shapes which goods appear worthy of attention and pursuit.
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