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    It is not the case that Happiness requires only a virtuous life and nothing else

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    • 1.Aristotle argues in NE 1099a that extreme misfortune—loss of friends, children, or noble birth—can obstruct eudaimonia even for the virtuous.
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    • 2.A life stripped of external goods lacks the material preconditions for exercising many virtues, such as generosity and civic friendship.
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    • 3.Therefore virtue is necessary but not sufficient for happiness, contra the Stoic conflation of virtue with the complete good.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Philippa Foot's natural goodness account holds that human flourishing is partly constituted by species-typical biological functioning, not only moral character.
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    • 2.Chronic pain, severe illness, or deprivation impair the characteristic human life-form regardless of the agent's virtuous disposition.
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    • 3.Premise P4's denial that bodily goods possess any value is thus inconsistent with a naturalistic criterion of what counts as a good human life.
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    • 1.Happiness is the secure possession of what is needed to make one's life thoroughly good
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    • 2.Virtue is the only thing required for happiness
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    • 3.Bodily and external goods are not necessary for virtue
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