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    It is not the case that If virtue and happiness are constitutively unified in the good human life, as Aristotle argues in the Nicomachean Ethics, no theological resolution of their tension is needed because the tension itself is illusory.

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    • 1.History shows virtuous martyrs and saints choosing suffering over happiness, suggesting virtue and happiness can genuinely diverge despite Aristotle's claims.
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    • 2.Aristotle's eudaimonia relies on external goods (health, friends, resources); deprivation can prevent happiness despite virtue, proving non-illusory tension.
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    • 3.Defining away the tension by redefining happiness to mean virtue-as-practiced simply begs the question rather than solving the philosophical problem.
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    • 1.Virtue is defined by Aristotle as human flourishing (eudaimonia), which necessarily includes happiness as its actualization, not external to it.
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    • 2.Empirically, virtuous people report greater life satisfaction than vice-ridden people, suggesting the tension between virtue and happiness is conceptual, not real.
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    • 3.Positing a tension assumes virtue and happiness are separable goods, but Aristotle's unity thesis denies this separability from the start.
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