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    The Stoic virtues are unified such that possessing any on... — Carmelics
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    The Stoic virtues are unified such that possessing any one virtue entails possessing all virtues.

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    • 1.No one can be moderate without also being just, courageous, and prudent.
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    • 2.Anyone who acts in accordance with one virtue acts in accordance with all of them.
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    • 3.The virtues are really just one state of the soul.
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    • 1.Aristotle's account in the Nicomachean Ethics demonstrates that courage and temperance can be cultivated independently through habituation before practical wisdom is achieved.
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    • 2.If virtues admit of degrees of development along distinct developmental pathways, then partial possession of one virtue does not logically entail full possession of all others.
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    • 3.The Stoic unity thesis conflates the finished product of complete virtue with the process of moral development, rendering moral progress conceptually unintelligible.
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    • 1.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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    • 2.If the unity of virtue were conceptually necessary, cross-situational inconsistency in virtuous behavior would be impossible rather than merely common, yet it is pervasive.
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    • 3.The Stoic response that such persons simply possess no virtues at all renders the thesis empirically vacuous by making it immune to any behavioral disconfirmation.
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    Since both ordinary people and Stoic wise men look after their health except in very extraordinary circumstances, both the sage and the ordinary person perform proper functions. A proper function becomes a fully correct action (katorthôma) only when it is perfected as an action of the specific kind to which it belongs, and so is done virtuously. In the tradition of Socratic moral theory, the Stoics regard virtues like courage and justice, and so on, as knowledge or science within the soul about
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