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    Virtue is necessary and sufficient for true happiness. — Carmelics
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    Virtue is necessary and sufficient for true happiness.

    Virtue Ethics
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    • 1.God's universal benevolence and infinite wisdom guarantee that virtue is always rewarded.
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    • 2.True happiness cannot be contingent solely on mortal goods, which are impermanent and unequally distributed.
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    • 1.Aristotle's own virtue ethics requires external goods (health, friendship, resources) as necessary conditions for eudaimonia.
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    • 2.A virtuous person subject to severe poverty, isolation, or physical degradation cannot actualize the full exercise of virtuous activity.
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    • 3.Therefore virtue alone, without supporting material conditions, is insufficient for the flourishing that constitutes genuine happiness.
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    • 1.The Stoic claim that virtue is sufficient for happiness requires radical redefinition of 'happiness' as purely rational self-sufficiency, not lived wellbeing.
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    • 2.Leibniz's theological guarantee conflates eschatological reward with present happiness, smuggling in an empirically unverifiable metaphysical premise.
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    • 3.A claim that requires divine cosmic justice as a hidden premise is not a claim about virtue's intrinsic relationship to happiness but about God's bookkeeping.
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    We are now in a position to see how specifically the solid principles of philosophy strengthen morality. True philosophy (i.e., sound metaphysics) aids morality by providing grounds for assurance that in the end happiness is directly proportioned to merit. The more virtuous one is, the greater the happiness one can expect because one's well-being does not completely depend on the goods of this life and because it is incompatible with God's universal benevolence and infinite wisdom that even a si
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    The Stoic claim that virtue is sufficient for happiness requires radical redefin...
    Therefore virtue alone, without supporting material conditions, is insufficient ...
    True happiness cannot be contingent solely on mortal goods, which are impermanen...
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