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    It is not the case that Virtue is both necessary and sufficient for eudaimonia.

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    • 1.Aristotle himself argues in NE I.8 that eudaimonia requires a sufficient supply of external goods such as health, friends, and moderate wealth.
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    • 2.A virtuous person subjected to the misfortunes of Priam—loss of children, city, and dignity—cannot sustain the activity of eudaimonia.
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    • 3.Therefore, virtue is necessary but not sufficient for eudaimonia, since fortune remains an ineliminable condition.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.The Stoic identification of virtue with eudaimonia collapses the distinction between living well and faring well, which are conceptually separable.
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    • 2.Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius notwithstanding, a person of perfect virtue who is tortured on the rack does not straightforwardly flourish in any robust sense recognizable to ordinary moral psychology.
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    • 1.Eudaimonia requires virtue.
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    • 2.Virtue alone, without external goods, is enough to secure eudaimonia.
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