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    It is not the case that The family damages itself by requiring Shun to deny himself the most important of human relationships

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    • 1.In Confucian ethics, filial piety toward parents constitutes the root of all virtue and takes precedence over spousal relationships.
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    • 2.Xunzi and orthodox Confucian texts rank the parent-child bond as ontologically prior to and more constitutive of personhood than marriage.
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    • 3.Therefore, denying Shun marriage does not deny him the 'most important' relationship, but rather preserves the more fundamental one.
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    • 1.The Mencian account of Shun's situation presupposes that family welfare is aggregative, but role-based ethics treats family obligations as irreducibly particular and asymmetric.
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    • 2.A family unit defined by hierarchical role-relations cannot coherently 'damage itself' through acts of parental authority, since that authority is constitutive of the family structure itself.
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    • 1.The family's welfare depends on Shun's welfare
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    • 2.Because the family's welfare depends on Shun, the family must recognize Shun's interests as constituting part of its own welfare
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    • 3.Denying Shun marriage denies him the most important of human relationships
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