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    It is not the case that The candidate must become the lover of every lovely body.

    ?Set your confidence on the premises below to see your aggregate.

    Reasons For

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    Reason for 1 of 2
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    • 1.Particular love relationships have moral and personal value that universal indiscriminate love structurally cannot preserve.
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    • 2.Aristotle's account of philia requires selective attachment based on character, not extension to all instances of a quality.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.The logical move from 'all beautiful bodies share the same beauty' to 'one must love all of them' commits a quantifier-shift fallacy.
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    • 2.Recognizing a universal property as identical across instances does not obligate affective responses to every instance of that property.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.The beauty of each and every body is the same.
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    • 2.Recognizing this sameness requires extending love to all beautiful bodies.
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