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    Wisdom is necessary and sufficient for happiness. — Carmelics
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    Wisdom is necessary and sufficient for happiness.

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    • 1.Wisdom is a kind of knowledge that infallibly brings happiness.
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    • 2.Without wisdom, all other goods are useless or even harmful, because without wisdom one will misuse them.
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    • 3.Wisdom is the only unconditional good.
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    • 1.Aristotle argues in Nicomachean Ethics I.8 that eudaimonia requires a minimum of external goods such as health, friendship, and fortune.
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    • 2.A wise person subject to severe poverty, illness, or the loss of children cannot fully exercise the virtues constitutive of flourishing.
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    • 3.Therefore wisdom is necessary but not sufficient for happiness, since brute misfortune can undermine it independently of rational agency.
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    • 1.The Stoic claim that wisdom alone suffices for happiness entails that the sage on the rack is happy, which conflicts with deeply held and revisable moral intuitions.
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    • 2.Philippa Foot and Rosalind Hursthouse argue that an adequate virtue ethics must remain accountable to considered judgments about what constitutes a good human life.
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    • 3.If a philosophical thesis systematically entails conclusions that no reflective person would endorse under full information, the thesis itself warrants revision.
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    In support of the idea that if one knows what happiness is, one will pursue it, Socrates argues, in the Euthydemus, that wisdom is necessary and sufficient for happiness. While most of this dialogue is given over to Euthydemus’ and Dionysiodorus’ eristic display, there are two Socratic interludes. In the first of these – in a passage that has a parallel in Meno (88a ff) – Socrates helps the young Cleinias to see that wisdom is a kind of knowledge that infallibly brings happiness. He uses an anal
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