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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.
Summary
Although it is widely recognised that many concepts central to Kant's ethics have a Stoic provenance, there has still been relatively little close scholarly examination of the significance of Stoic ethics for the development of Kant's philosophy over the Critical period and beyond. This volume brings together an intellectually diverse group of scholars from classics and philosophy to advance our understanding of this topic, taking up questions about the transmission of Stoic philosophy in Kant's intellectual context, the quality of Kant's own understanding of Stoicism, his transformation of some of its central ideas, and the topic's significance to what remains vital about Stoic and Kantian ethics today. The volume will interest those working on the history of philosophy, the nature of rationality, the philosophy of action, moral psychology, and virtue theory.
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.
