Stoic Virtues Chrysippus and the Religious

Like its ancient rivals, Stoic ethics was a form of virtue ethics, yet while the concept of virtue was clearly central to Stoic ethics, the concept of Stoic virtue has not yet been fully explored. Instead, the existing literature tends to impose on the Stoic material philosophically quite alien non-Aristotelian interpretations of virtue.

Christoph Jedan is Lecturer in Ethics at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He has previously taught at the University of Mnster, Germany, and the University of Cambridge, UK.

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
A Religious World-View
Stoic Corporealism	p. 9
Stoic Theology	p. 21
Two Pictures of Fate	p. 31
Virtue and the Virtues
Definitions of Virtue	p. 51
Chrysippus' Characterization of Virtue as 'Perfect State'	p. 52
Virtue as 'Consistent Character'	p. 58
The Virtues as Epist&ebar;mai	p. 66
The Virtues-Different yet Inseparable	p. 75
The Difference between the Virtues	p. 75
The Inseparability of the Virtues	p. 77
A Catalogue of Virtues	p. 81
Ethical virtues	p. 81
Additional (Generic) Virtues	p. 84
The Openness of Chrysippus' Catalogue of Virtues	p. 90
Becoming Virtuous
Vice and the Attainability of Virtue	p. 97
Initiation	p. 103
Virtue and Happiness	p. 110
Practice of Virtue
Law and Rules	p. 121
Law	p. 122
Rules and Kath&ebar;konta	p. 129
Stoic Practical Reasoning	p. 135
The Single Kath&ebar;kon and the Versatility of Stoic Prescriptions	p. 143
Epilogue	p. 156
A Stoic Virtue Table	p. 158
Chrysippus' and Aristotle's Lists of Virtues-a Comparison	p. 160
Notes	p. 174
Bibliography	p. 209
Index of Cited Passages	p. 219
General Index	p. 228
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Stoic Virtues Chrysippus and the Religious Character of Stoic Ethics

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