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Varying pleasant activities is conducive to well-being. — Carmelics

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Varying pleasant activities is conducive to well-being.

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1.Awareness of one's stable natural state's unimpeded life activity must be maintained.
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2.Varying the expression of life activity is needed to maintain that awareness.
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1.Aristotle holds that eudaimonia requires the stable, consistent exercise of virtuous activity, not novel variation in pleasant pursuits.
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2.Habituation (ethos) builds character through repetition, meaning variety in activity undermines the deep dispositional excellence central to well-being.
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1.The Stoics argue that well-being (eudaimonia) depends entirely on rational virtue, rendering variation in externally pleasant activities irrelevant to its achievement.
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2.Treating varied pleasant activities as conducive to well-being conflates preferred indifferents (proēgmena adiaphora) with genuine goods, a category error Epictetus explicitly warns against.
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Epicurus took a less elitist and less intellectualist view of pleasure according to which it is available to its greatest extent to any animal free from bodily and emotional pain (Cooper 1999a), with no highly developed distinctively human capacity or functioning in principle required. Epicureans cultivated philosophy, however, to free people from groundless fears of afterlife suffering and death, and inculcated habits of living enabling one to live simply and thus securely because not needing,

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Perspectives: 3 (1 for, 2 against)
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