| 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 |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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 |