 Eudaimonists argue that Rand’s vision of a virtuous and happy life in her novels can be understood only as a form of eudaimonism, even if she sometimes makes statements inconsistent with this vision. The chief objection to eudaimonism is that, by defining a happy life partly in terms of virtue, it employs an unconvincing conception of happiness. The philosophical literature on happiness in this sense (usually called well-being) makes and answers this and other such objections (Annas 1993, Haybron 2008, Badhwar 2014).