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    It is not the case that Possession and exercise of the virtues is both necessary and sufficient for happiness.

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    • 1.Aristotle argues in the Nicomachean Ethics that eudaimonia requires a sufficient endowment of external goods, including health, friends, and resources.
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    • 2.A virtuous person subjected to severe misfortune—Priam's destruction, Philoctetes' abandonment—is not fully happy, regardless of their character.
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    • 3.The Stoic claim collapses the distinction between virtue as necessary condition and virtue as sufficient condition, which Aristotle's moderate externalism preserves.
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    • 1.The sufficiency thesis requires that virtue alone fully determines happiness, but Philippa Foot and others show that moral luck can undermine flourishing independent of character.
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    • 2.If a virtuous agent's rational agency is destroyed by dementia or torture, their virtue cannot be exercised, and an unexercised disposition cannot secure happiness.
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    • 1.Only what is noble, fine, or morally good (kalon) is genuinely good.
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    • 2.Possession of what is genuinely good secures a person's happiness.
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    • 3.The virtues are the only genuinely good things.
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