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    It is not the case that The Stoic virtues are unified such that possessing any one virtue entails possessing all virtues.

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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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    • 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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