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    It is not the case that 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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    • 1.Beatitude defined as emotional joy is psychologically contingent; virtuous character remains stable regardless of subjective feeling states.
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    • 2.Divorcing the highest good from moral virtue risks justifying immoral acts if one claims direct divine experience or special grace.
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    • 3.The claim that virtue alone leaves humans unfulfilled assumes a teleology impossible to verify empirically or rationally demonstrate.
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    • 1.Moral virtue alone cannot satisfy the deepest human longings for transcendence and ultimate meaning beyond temporal goods.
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    • 2.A virtuous person acting from duty without experiencing joy or union with God remains existentially incomplete and unfulfilled.
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    • 3.If God is humanity's ultimate end and source of all goodness, then beatitude in God must surpass virtue as a merely human achievement.
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