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Full Idea
The possession of goodness is thought to be compatible with being asleep, or…with inactivity, or…with atrocious suffering.
Gist of Idea
You can be good while asleep, or passive, or in pain
Source
Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics [c.334 BCE], 1096a02)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Ethics (Nicomachean)', ed/tr. ThomsonJ A K/TredennickH [Penguin 1976], p.68
A Reaction
This helps to distinguish eudaimonia from the pleasant view of happiness. Pain probably annuls most immediate happiness, but has little to do with long-term flourishing.