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This project aims to analyze Plato's and Aristotle's arguments on the unity of virtues. In proposing a joint analysis of these philosophers, the guiding hypothesis is that much of the difference between their positions regarding the characterization of the relationship of virtues among themselves, and, consequently, of their unity, can be rooted in a different argumentative approach: on the one hand, Plato seems to frame the issue with his broader concern about the nature of dialectics and the intricate relationship of the unity of an εἶδος with the multiplicity that underlies it, that is, Plato seems to be concerned with the question of how particular virtues, which sometimes seem superficially even antagonistic, can be adapted and relate harmoniously under the aegis of Virtue itself; on the other hand, Aristotle mainly presents the question of how the varied ethical virtues can fit into the dianoetic virtue of φρόνησις as a unifying “prudence” or “practical reason” that gives right actions their right reasons, their rational substrate. . If correct, such a hypothesis allows a better understanding of the divergences in the moral theories of both.