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    Challenges→The Stoic virtues are unified such that possessing any one virtue entails possessing all virtues.

    Empirical moral psychology, from Hartshorne and May's 1928 studies onward, consistently shows that individuals exhibit high honesty in some domains while displaying low courage or justice in others.

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    Empirical moral psychology(as used in ethics and psychology)
    The scientific study of how people actually think, feel, and behave morally—based on real observations and experiments rather than just theories.
    Hartshorne and May(historical researchers cited as foundational to the field)
    Two psychologists who conducted famous experiments in 1928 testing how honest children were in different situations, helping start the scientific study of moral behavior.
    Justice(Utilitarian account of justice; contrasted with non-utility-based theories)
    A name for certain classes of moral rules which concern the essentials of human well-being more nearly than other rules for the guidance of life, carrying more absolute obligation.
    courage(Distinguished from mere daring or boldness by its essential connection to moral goodness.)
    Mastery of fear exercised in the context of the pursuit of good ends.

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