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    It is not the case that Wisdom is necessary and sufficient for happiness.

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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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    Reasons Against

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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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