Abstract
AbstractChapter 6 discusses what Stoic ethical theory, as interpreted here, can contribute distinctively to modern virtue ethics, as an alternative to Aristotle, the main ancient prototype. It is argued that the Stoic theory is morally rigorous in a way that is compatible with modern virtue ethics, while also being more self-consistent and fully worked out than Aristotelian ethics. This point applies to the virtue-happiness relationship, in particular the combination (found in both Aristotle and Stoicism) of the ideas that virtue is intrinsically desirable and that it brings about happiness, viewed as the overall goal of a human life. Also, Stoic ethics offers a fresh and distinctive account of self-other relationships, though one which is more straightforwardly compatible with modern ideas about altruism than Aristotelian thinking.
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