Kant and Stoic Ethics [Hardcover]

The first edited volume dedicated to the significance of Stoic ethics for Kant uniting Kant scholars and ancient philosophy specialists to tackle these questions.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.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.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.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 lÃÔ