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yeah, I'd say the full unity claim is not so popular. but neither are the virtues fully discrete. idk how to specify/describe with any precision the nature of their interconnectedness though
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I think it's actually wrong. One way to understand Freud's contribution in forking psychology off from philosophy, especially virtue ethics flavors, was to show how psyches can be unbundled into patterns of connected islands and rifts.
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Integrative psychology and various self-realization models aspire to, and offer, full unity in your sense/Plato's sense but I'm skeptical that that is in fact what they deliver.
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oh no they definitely don't deliver that. I see the task, either philosophized or psychologized, as deeply path-dependent. you start with rifts and clusters and move to other clusters, at best.
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my key to act 2 post is a good summary of how I view the question... I think the outcomes are not just path dependent but actively diverge in ways that make unified virtue comparisons impossible and kinda meaningless