Aristotle,Kant,andtheStoics:RethinkingHappinessandDuty

Thismajorcollectionofessaysoffersthefirstseriouschallengetothetraditionalviewthatancientandmodernethicsarefundamentallyopposed.Indoingso,ithasimportantimplicationsforcontemporaryethicalthought,aswellasprovidingasignificantre-assessmentoftheworkofAristotle,KantandtheStoics.Thecontributorsincludeinternationallyrecognisedinterpretersofancientandmodernethics.FourpairsofessayscompareandcontrastAristotleandKantondeliberationandmoraldevelopment(JohnMcDowellandBarbaraHerman),eudaimonism(T.H.IrwinandStephenEngstrom),self-loveandself-worth(JenniferWhitingandAllenWood),andpracticalreasonandmoralpsychology(JuliaAnnasandChristineKorsgaard).ThefinalpairofessaysintroducestheStoicsasanexampleofhowtheapparentlyantitheticalviewsofAristotleandtheStoicsmightbereconciled(JohnCooperandJ.B.Schneewind).