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    It is not the case that Aristotle's own claim that virtue is choiceworthy for its own sake is undermined if its full value requires an observing friend.

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    • 1.Being choiceworthy for its own sake need not mean being valuable only in isolation; virtues can be intrinsic goods within human relationships.
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    • 2.Friendship's role may be constitutive of flourishing rather than merely instrumental—the observing friend completes virtue, not adds to it.
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    • 3.Aristotle's claim about intrinsic choiceworthiness addresses why we value virtue, not whether its expression requires social contexts to be meaningful.
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    • 1.If virtue's value depends on external recognition, it becomes instrumentally valuable rather than intrinsically choiceworthy for its own sake.
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    • 2.Aristotle defines eudaimonia as self-sufficient; requiring an observer contradicts this core requirement of human flourishing.
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    • 3.A virtue that needs witnesses to be fully valuable is vulnerable to loss of worth when unobserved, making it unstable as an ultimate good.
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