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    It is not the case that 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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    Reasons For

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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