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    It is not the case that Aristotle holds that eudaimonia—the deepest human flourishing—arises from virtuous activity in accordance with reason, not from passionate intensity.

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    • 1.Some of life's deepest goods—love, aesthetic experience, moral outrage—involve passionate intensity that reason alone cannot generate.
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    • 2.Virtue without emotional engagement becomes hollow; courage requires fear transformed, not reason devoid of passionate commitment.
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    • 3.Aristotle himself identifies passionate emotions like proper anger and appropriate joy as components of virtue, not obstacles to it.
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    • 1.Reason provides stable, reliable guidance across contexts, while passion fluctuates based on circumstances and bodily states.
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    • 2.Virtuous activity requires deliberation and judgment about means and ends, capacities unique to reason rather than emotion.
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    • 3.Eudaimonia means fulfilling our distinctive human function; reason differentiates humans from other animals more than passion does.
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