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    Challenges→A nature-fulfillment theory of well-being may be incompatible with Buddhist metaphysics

    A nature-fulfillment theory of well-being requires that beings have a nature capable of being fulfilled

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    However, hedonism is not our only interpretive option. Śāntideva claims in several passages that the Buddhist virtues work together and reinforce each other. This makes it possible to read him as holding a “homeostatic cluster” view of well-being like that of Richard Boyd (see Goodman 2016b, 149-152.) Those who defend the analogy between Buddhist ethics and Aristotelian virtue ethics could advance a nature-fulfillment theory as the proper interpretation of well-being in Buddhism. Mark Siderits (

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