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    Aristotle argues in Nicomachean Ethics I.8 that eudaimoni... — Carmelics
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    Aristotle argues in Nicomachean Ethics I.8 that eudaimonia requires a minimum of external goods such as health, friendship, and fortune.

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    • 1.Humans are embodied beings; physical health enables the exercise of virtue and intellectual activity required for eudaimonia.
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    • 2.Friendship is intrinsically valuable and constitutive of human flourishing, not merely instrumental to other goods.
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    • 3.Extreme poverty or illness creates obstacles that prevent even virtuous people from achieving their full potential and happiness.
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    • 1.If eudaimonia truly depends on external goods, then virtuous people lack control over their own happiness, contradicting Aristotle's emphasis on virtue.
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    • 2.Many exemplars of human flourishing (philosophers, ascetics, martyrs) have achieved eudaimonia despite lacking health, fortune, or abundant friendships.
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    • 3.Claiming external goods are necessary makes eudaimonia contingent on luck, conflicting with the idea that it is the highest human good.
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