Stoic Eudaimonia

September 25, 2009 at 6:02 pm (General) ()

…Aristotle takes virtue and its exercise to be the most important constituent in eudaimonia but does acknowledge the importance of external goods such as health, wealth, and beauty. By contrast, the Stoics make virtue necessary and sufficient for eudaimonia and thus deny the necessity of external goods….
- From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudaimonia

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