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Why do philosophers like Aristotle value virtue and not succumbing to unneeded desires when they don’t believe in anything after life?

Wouldn’t not believing in anything after life give you reason to live by your desires, if not for purely surviving but to enjoy life in the fullest?
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Aristotle doesn’t view pleasure as the goal of a Good Life. He views happiness, or eudaimonia, as the goal of a Good Life. 

Now, one might think that pleasure=happiness, but Aristotle would say that you can deceive yourself about what true happiness is, and that it actually lies in a life of pursuing the virtues, not in a life of pursuing simple pleasures. 

Also, just an interesting side note, philosophers like John Stuart Mill would agree with the idea that the “higher pleasures” (virtue, intellectual pursuit, etc.) bring about more happiness than “lower pleasures” (sex, drugs, alcohol, etc.).