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    The candidate must bring his passion for one individual b... — Carmelics
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    The candidate must bring his passion for one individual body into due proportion by deeming it of little or no importance.

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    • 1.He must become the lover of every lovely body.
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    • 2.Fixation on one body is disproportionate once the universality of bodily beauty is recognized.
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    • 1.Particular loving relationships constitute irreplaceable moral goods that universal abstraction structurally destroys, not transcends.
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    • 2.Iris Murdoch argues that genuine moral attention requires loving perception of the particular individual, not dissolution into universals.
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    • 3.A love that deems its object 'of little importance' is not purified love but its categorical negation.
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    • 1.Aristotle's account of philia holds that deep friendship requires sustained particularity — knowing and valuing this person for who they specifically are.
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    • 2.The Platonic ladder conflates the epistemic ascent toward Forms with the normative claim that particulars deserve diminished concern, a non-sequitur.
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    • 3.Recognizing that many bodies share beauty does not logically entail that attachment to one body is disproportionate rather than appropriately focused.
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    The candidate for this initiation cannot, if his efforts are to be rewarded, begin too early to devote himself to the beauties of the body. First of all, if his preceptor instructs him as he should, he will fall in love with the beauty of one individual body, so that his passion may give life to noble discourse. Next he must consider how nearly related the beauty of any one body is to the beauty of any other, and he will see that if he is to devote himself to loveliness of form it will be absurd
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