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    The Stoic and Peripatetic view that virtue is the end of ... — Carmelics
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    The Stoic and Peripatetic view that virtue is the end of life is mistaken.

    Virtue Ethics
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    • 1.Pleasure, not virtue, is the natural end of all living beings, as Epicurus argued: nature itself guides creatures toward enjoyment and away from pain.
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    • 2.Virtue, on Epicurean grounds, is instrumentally valuable only insofar as it reliably produces pleasurable and tranquil states of living.
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    • 3.An end must be intrinsically and universally motivating; virtue fails this criterion since it is pursued only when pleasant consequences are anticipated.
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    • 1.Valla, following Augustine, held that the highest human good is beatitude—a state involving joy and fruition in God—which is distinct from and superior to moral virtue alone.
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    • 2.Stoic and Peripatetic ethics conflate the means of living well (virtuous conduct) with the ultimate goal (felicity or beatitude), committing a category error about final ends.
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    • 3.Even Aristotle's own account in the Nicomachean Ethics treats eudaimonia as the true end and virtue as merely constitutive of it, undermining a pure virtue-as-end thesis.
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    • 1.Virtuous behavior is difficult, requiring harsh and bitter afflictions.
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    • 2.Because virtue is filled with toil and hardship, no one naturally seeks it as an end in itself.
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    • 3.What is genuinely sought as an end must be something people naturally and voluntarily desire.
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    Valla’s reductive strategy has a clear aim: to equate this essential virtue of action, fortitude, with the biblical concept of love and charity. This step requires some hermeneutic manipulation, but the Stoic overtones of Cicero’s account in De officiis have prepared the way for it—ironically, perhaps, in view of Valla’s professed hostility towards Stoicism—since enduring hardship with Stoic patience is easily linked to the Pauline message that we become strong by being tested (II Cor. 12:10, qu
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