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    Aristotle argues in the Nicomachean Ethics that external ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Money and health are not genuinely good — they are 'indifferents', neither good nor bad.

    Aristotle argues in the Nicomachean Ethics that external goods like health and resources are necessary conditions for eudaimonia, not merely instrumental aids.

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    • 1.Aristotle explicitly states in NE I.8-9 that external goods are needed for virtuous activity, not just nice-to-haves.
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    • 2.Without health, resources, or social position, individuals cannot perform virtuous acts that constitute eudaimonia.
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    • 3.Eudaimonia requires actualizing human potential through activity, which materially depends on external enablers.
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    • 1.Aristotle's claim that virtue is 'sufficient for eudaimonia' (NE VII.13) contradicts strict necessity of external goods.
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    • 2.If external goods were necessary conditions, virtuous enslaved people or the destitute could never achieve eudaimonia.
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    • 3.Aristotle distinguishes between complete eudaimonia and virtue itself; external goods may enhance but not constitute it.
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