
HoP 114 - Sarah Byers on Augustine's Ethics
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Is Virtue the Only Thing You Need to Be Happy?
Gustens: Virtue is the only thing you need to be happy. Since having an unbroken leg isn't required for virtue in the long run, it doesn't matter even if it's preferred. It's rational to prefer to not have a broken leg. So we're supposed to select things that are preferred but with an absolute detachment. In other words, they don't matter for virtue.
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