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    A person will be happier if virtuous rather than vicious — Carmelics
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    A person will be happier if virtuous rather than vicious

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    Shaftesbury goes on to argue that being moral is in every person’s own best interests—that one will be happier if one is virtuous rather than vicious. As he sums up his argument in the conclusion of the Inquiry,

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