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    It is not the case that Health is a preferred indifferent, not a good.

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    • 1.Aristotle argues in the Nicomachean Ethics that health is a genuine external good constitutive of eudaimonia, not merely preferred.
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    • 2.If health were a mere indifferent, severe illness could not diminish flourishing, yet Aristotle explicitly grants that misfortune undermines happiness.
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    • 3.The Stoic distinction between 'preferred' and 'good' collapses when the preferred systematically enables the exercise of every virtue.
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    • 1.Premise P2 illicitly assumes that contribution to happiness requires being a virtue, but Aristotle's hylomorphic account allows bodily conditions to partly constitute the good life.
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    • 2.If health makes no contribution to life's quality, then the Stoic sage who is tortured on the rack is as happy as one in full health, a conclusion Chrysippus himself found difficult to maintain.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Health is preferable because it conforms with nature's plans.
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    • 2.Health makes no contribution to the quality of one's life as good or bad, happy or miserable.
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    • 3.Health is not a virtue and does not contribute to virtue.
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