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    One acts as procreator only of this particular person by ... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Friends are not fungible because one's role as procreator is particular to the specific friend one has helped form.

    One acts as procreator only of this particular person by mirroring and shaping that specific friend's virtues.

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    In an interesting twist on standard accounts of the sense in which (according to Aristotle, at least) a friend is a mirror, Millgram (1987) claims that in mirroring my friend I am causally responsible for my friend coming to have and sustain the virtues he has. Consequently, I am in a sense my friend’s “procreator,” and I therefore find myself actualized in my friend. For this reason, Millgram claims, I come to love my friend in the same way I love myself, and this explains (a) Aristotle’s other

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