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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / d. Good as virtue

[goodness is is excellent of character and behaviour]

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If a person is good they will automatically become happy [Plato]
Living happily is nothing but living virtuously [Chrysippus, by Plutarch]
A good human will be virtuous because they are happy [Nietzsche]
Virtue is superior to pleasure, as pleasure is never a duty, but goodness is [Ross]
Basing ethics on flourishing makes it consequentialist, as actions are judged by contributing to it [Harman]
Virtue may be neither sufficient nor necessary for eudaimonia [Hursthouse]