Do the virtues, as is often said, conflict with each other? The history of philosophy knows various attempts to conceive of them so as to exclude such conflict. Nicolai Hartmann ("Ethik", 1925) is the most prominent representative "and" critic of this tradition in our century. Each Aristotelian "mean", for him, represents a "synthesis" of "conflicting values"; but only the "one and only virtue" synthesizing "all" values would exclude all tragic conflict. In contrast, the Aristotelian and medieval conception of "connexio virtutum" by "prudence" allows the virtues to "limit each other" and thus be "compatible" without merging into one super-virtue.
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Muller, A. W. (1998). Einheit der Tugend oder Einheit der Tugenden? Theologie Und Philosophie, 73(2) 173-195.
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