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    It is not the case that Virtue is the supreme good.

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    Reasons For

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    Reason for 1 of 2
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    • 1.External goods such as health, friendship, and adequate material resources are necessary conditions for the exercise of virtue itself.
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    • 2.A good that cannot be realized without prior conditions it does not guarantee cannot be the supreme or self-sufficient good.
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    • 3.Therefore virtue, dependent on conditions outside the will, fails the criteria of supremacy it claims.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Aristotle's eudaimonia requires not virtue alone but virtue in action across a complete life, including favorable external circumstances.
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    • 2.A person of perfect virtue who suffers extreme misfortune—loss of children, health, or community—cannot be called fully flourishing.
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    • 3.The Stoic-Cartesian identification of virtue with supreme good conflates the highest internal good with the highest good simpliciter.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Virtue is the only good, among all those we can possess, which depends entirely on our free will.
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    • 2.Virtue is sufficient for happiness.
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