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    Aristotle's eudaimonia framework holds that virtuous acti... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Actions and activities can have only extrinsic value, not intrinsic value.

    Aristotle's eudaimonia framework holds that virtuous activity (energeia) is itself the good, not merely a means to pleasurable states.

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    • 1.Virtuous activity requires excellence of character, which intrinsically involves exercising our highest rational capacities.
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    • 2.If virtue were merely instrumental to pleasure, the virtuous person would be conditionally good, making virtue dependent on external outcomes.
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    • 3.Human flourishing uniquely involves actualizing our distinctive rational nature through sustained virtuous practice, not passive pleasure.
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    • 1.Virtuous activity typically produces pleasurable emotional states (pride, satisfaction, friendship); claiming pleasure is irrelevant seems psychologically implausible.
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    • 2.A person acting virtuously under torture experiences genuine eudaimonia according to Aristotle, yet this contradicts the claim that the activity itself constitutes the good.
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    • 3.Aristotle acknowledges that virtuous activity requires health, friendship, and external goods, suggesting the activity alone is insufficient for eudaimonia.
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