Introduction |
3 |
I. The Basic Ideas |
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1. Making Sense of My Life as a Whole |
27 |
2. The Virtues |
47 |
1. Having the Virtues |
47 |
2. The Affective Aspect of Virtue |
53 |
3. The Intellectual Aspect of Virtue |
66 |
4. The Structure of Moral Reasoning: Rules and Insight |
84 |
5. Virtue and Right Action |
108 |
6. Ordinary and Extraordinary Virtue |
115 |
7. Virtue and Morality |
120 |
II. Justification and the Appeal to Nature |
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3. Nature and Naturalism |
135 |
4. Aristotle: Nature and Mere Nature |
142 |
5. The Stoics: Human Nature and the Point of View of the Universe |
159 |
6. Antiochus: The Intuitive View |
180 |
7. The Epicureans: Rethinking What Is Natural |
188 |
8. The Sceptics: Accepting What Is Natural |
201 |
1. Pyrrho |
203 |
2. The Sceptical Academy |
205 |
3. Later Pyrrhonists: Sextus |
207 |
9. Uses of Nature |
214 |
III. The Good Life and the Good Lives of Others |
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10. The Good of Others |
223 |
11. Finding Room for Other-Concern |
227 |
1. The Cyrenaics |
227 |
2. Epicurus |
236 |
3. The Sceptics |
244 |
12. Self-Concern and the Sources and Limits of Other-Concern |
249 |
1. Aristotle on Friendship and Self-Love |
249 |
2. The Stoics on Other-Concern and Impartiality |
262 |
3. The Aristotelian Response |
276 |
4. The Debate |
288 |
13. Justice |
291 |
1. Justice: A Virtue of Character and a Virtue of Institutions |
291 |
2. Epicurus on Justice |
293 |
3. The Stoics: Natural Law and the Depoliticized Outlook |
302 |
4. Aristotelian Theories |
312 |
5. Conclusion |
320 |
14. Self-Interest and Morality |
322 |
IV. Revising Your Priorities |
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15. Happiness, Success and What Matters |
329 |
16. Epicurus: Virtue, Pleasure and Time |
334 |
17. The Sceptics: Untroubledness without Belief |
351 |
18. Aristotle: An Unstable View |
364 |
19. Theophrastus and the Stoics: Forcing the Issue |
395 |
1. Theophrastus |
385 |
2. The Stoics |
388 |
20. Aristotelian Responses |
412 |
1. Aristotle's School |
413 |
2. Arius Didymus' Account of Aristotelian Ethics |
415 |
3. Antiochus |
419 |
21. Happiness and the Demands of Virtue |
426 |
V. Conclusion |
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22. Morality, Ancient and Modern |
439 |
1. The Shape of Ancient Ethical Theory |
440 |
2. The Tasks of Ethical Theory |
442 |
3. Structural Contrasts |
446 |
4. Ancient Ethics and Modern Morality |
452 |
Cast of Characters |
457 |
Primary Sources |
465 |
Secondary Sources |
469 |
Index Locorum |
484 |
General Index |
494 |