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    A person of perfect virtue who suffers extreme misfortune... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Virtue is the supreme good.

    A person of perfect virtue who suffers extreme misfortune—loss of children, health, or community—cannot be called fully flourishing.

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    • 1.Flourishing requires actualizing human potential across multiple dimensions: intellectual, relational, physical, and social.
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    • 2.Loss of children, health, or community objectively eliminates or severely constrains actualization in essential human dimensions.
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    • 3.A person cannot be fully flourishing while experiencing profound suffering that dominates their conscious experience and limits agency.
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    • 1.Virtue consists in excellent character and wise judgment, which are intrinsic qualities independent of external circumstances or misfortune.
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    • 2.Flourishing (eudaimonia) in classical philosophy means living excellently according to reason, achievable even amid adversity through virtue.
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    • 3.Defining flourishing by external conditions makes it hostage to fortune, contradicting the Stoic insight that true well-being lies in moral character alone.
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