Assertion: virtue | /r/HasProperty | necessary
Facets:
value: according to the stoics
type: OTHER
value: for plato
type: OTHER
value: for happiness
type: PURPOSE
value: for the stoics
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: for aristotle
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: For Aristotle, virtue is necessary but not sufficient—
text: The virtue of perseverance is needed for all and any virtue since it is a habit of character and must be used continuously in order for any person to maintain oneself in virtue.
text: They are necessary for a child’s well-being and happiness.
text: For Plato and the Stoics, virtue is both necessary and sufficient for eudaimonia (Annas 1993).
text: If virtue is neither necessary nor sufficient for right action, one might wonder whether the relationship between rightness/wrongness and virtue/vice is close enough for the former to be identified in terms of the latter.
text: The Stoic view is sometimes put in the form that ‘virtue is the only good’ or (in philosophical language), that virtue is necessary and sufficient for happiness, i.e. all you need to be happy.
text: However, Socrates adopted a quite radical form of eudaimonism (see above): he seems to have thought that virtue is both necessary and sufficient for eudaimonia.
text: In summary, Socrates seems to think that virtue is both necessary and sufficient for eudaimonia.
text: However, it is Aristotle's explicit view that virtue is necessary but not sufficient for eudaimonia.
text: According to the Stoics, virtue is necessary and sufficient for eudaimonia.