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    It is not the case that Apparent counterexamples such as desiring virtue for its own sake do not refute the claim that happiness is the only thing desirable in itself

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    • 1.Aristotle's account of eudaimonia treats virtuous activity as constitutive of flourishing, not merely instrumental to a separable hedonic state.
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    • 2.Mill's assimilation of virtue into happiness conflates the psychological fact of what people desire with the normative question of what is intrinsically desirable.
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    • 3.If happiness expands to include every intrinsically desired end, the claim that happiness alone is desirable becomes vacuously true rather than substantive.
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    • 1.G.E. Moore's open question argument shows 'desirable' cannot be analytically reduced to 'productive of happiness' without committing the naturalistic fallacy.
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    • 2.If virtue is genuinely desired for its own sake and not as a means, it constitutes an independent end, making happiness merely one good among several.
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    • Desires for virtue for its own sake are not inconsistent with happiness being the only thing desirable in itself
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