“Men become builders by building and lyre players by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.”3 What we enact or perform with our bodies are not merely secondary aspects of how we express our beliefs, commitments, or values. Rather, the practices we embody do a work on us in a way that is separate from and external to whatever cognitive meaning, moral intention, or cultural logic we may also bring to the table.4
