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    It is not the case that Virtue alone is not sufficient for eudaimonia; external goods are also required.

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    • 1.The Stoics argued that virtue is both necessary and sufficient for eudaimonia, making external goods merely 'preferred indifferents' (proēgmena adiaphora).
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    • 2.If eudaimonia depends on luck-governed externals, then the virtuous person's flourishing is hostage to fortune, undermining the rational self-sufficiency that eudaimonia requires.
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    • 3.Zeno and Chrysippus held that a virtuous sage flourishes fully even under torture, showing virtue alone constitutes the complete good.
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    • 1.Kant's moral philosophy identifies the highest good with a will governed by duty, not outcomes contingent on fortune or circumstance.
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    • 2.Tying eudaimonia to external goods conflates moral worth—which depends solely on rational agency—with empirical conditions beyond the agent's control.
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    • 3.A conception of flourishing vulnerable to brute luck cannot serve as a universal normative standard, since agents cannot be obligated toward what lies outside their power.
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    • 1.Virtue is necessary for eudaimonia.
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    • 2.External goods, which are a matter of luck, are required for eudaimonia in addition to virtue.
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