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Eudaimonia

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Eudaimonia—flourishing, a life going well as a whole—is virtue ethics' goal: virtues are the traits a flourishing human life requires.

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Not a passing feeling but a whole life's shape—which is why Aristotle said one swallow does not make a spring.

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"Happiness" is the common translation and a misleading one—a pleasant mood is neither necessary nor sufficient.