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    Happiness does not include health, pleasure, or wealth. — Carmelics
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    Happiness does not include health, pleasure, or wealth.

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    • 1.Possessing and exercising virtue is happiness.
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    • 2.Health, pleasure, and wealth are not virtues.
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    • 1.Aristotle explicitly identifies external goods and bodily goods as necessary conditions for eudaimonia in Nicomachean Ethics I.8-10.
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    • 2.A virtuous person suffering severe illness, poverty, or deprivation lacks the material preconditions for full human flourishing.
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    • 3.Therefore happiness requires, at minimum, a threshold of health, resources, and pleasure as enabling conditions for virtuous activity.
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    • 1.The Stoic claim that virtue alone suffices for happiness was rejected by the Peripatetics as paradoxical and contrary to common moral experience.
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    • 2.Pleasure, when rational and proportionate, is not separate from virtuous activity but constitutes its natural completion, as Aristotle argues in NE X.4.
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    They argue that health, pleasure, beauty, strength, wealth, good reputation, and noble birth are neither good nor bad. Since they can be used well or badly and the good is invariably good, these assets are not good. The virtues, however, are good (DL VII 102–103), since they are perfections of our rationality, and only rationally perfected thoughts and decisions can possibly have the features of harmony and order in which goodness itself consists. Since possessing and exercising virtue is happin
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