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"The kinship between Stoic and Kantian thought, particularly in ethics, is often observed. Yet there has been rather little dedicated scholarship on the significance of Stoic ethics for the development of Kant's philosophy. The volume brings leading Kant scholars and ancient philosophy specialists together to tackle the question"--
List of contents
Introduction; Part I. Law and 'Duty': 1. Ethical formulae in ancient stoicism Brad Inwood; 2. Duties and permissible actions in the early stoics and Kant Iakovos Vasiliou; 3. The stoics and Kant on the motive of duty Jacob Klein; Part II. Virtue and Eudaimonia: 4. Kant on the unity and plurality of the virtues Katja Maria Vogt; 5. Perfection and morality Stephen Engstrom; 6. The stoical sublime I. S. Blecher; 7. Kant's rejection of stoic eudaimonism Michael Vazquez; 8. Life as a game of skill? Kant and the stoics about the results of human agency Jens Timmermann; 9. Living in accordance with nature: Kant and stoicism Paul Guyer; Part III. Human Feeling and Ethical Development: 10. On the relationship between orientation and agency: from the stoics' Oikeiôsis to Kant's Orientierung Alix Cohen; 11. 'Everyone has a price at which he sells himself': Epictetus and Kant on self-respect Melissa Merritt; 12. Anger reinstated: stoics and Kant on anger Nancy Sherman; 13. Kant's philosophy of history as stoic consolation Rachel Zuckert; Bibliography; Index.
About the author
Melissa Merritt is currently Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales and held an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (2019–22). She is the author of Kant on Reflection and Virtue (Cambridge, 2018), which won the 2019 North American Kant Society Book Prize.
Summary
The kinship between Stoic and Kantian thought, particularly in ethics, is often observed. Yet there has been rather little dedicated scholarship on the significance of Stoic ethics for the development of Kant's philosophy. The volume brings leading Kant scholars and ancient philosophy specialists together to tackle the question.
Foreword
The first edited volume dedicated to the significance of Stoic ethics for Kant uniting Kant scholars and ancient philosophy specialists to tackle these questions.
