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The Role Ethics of Epictetus - Stoicism in Ordinary Life (Paperback)
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The Role Ethics of Epictetus - Stoicism in Ordinary Life (Paperback)
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The Role Ethics of Epictetus: Stoicism in Ordinary Life offers an
original interpretation of Epictetus's ethics and how he bases his
ethics on an appeal to our roles in life. Epictetus believes that
every individual is the bearer of many roles from sibling to
citizen and that individuals are morally good if they fulfill the
obligations associated with these roles. To understand Epictetus's
account of roles, scholars have often mistakenly looked backwards
to Cicero's earlier and more schematic account of roles. However,
for Cicero, roles are merely a tool in the service of the virtue of
decorum where decorum is one of the four canonical
virtues-prudence, justice, greatness of spirit, and decorum. In
contrast, Epictetus sets those virtues aside and offers roles as a
complete ethical theory that does the work of those canonical
virtues. This book elucidates the unique features of Epictetus's
role based ethics. First, individuals have many roles and these
roles are substantial enough that they may conflict. Second,
although Epictetus is often taken to have only a sparse theory of
appropriate action (or "duty" in older translations), Brian E.
Johnson examines the criteria by which appropriate action is
measured in order to demonstrate that Epictetus does have an
account of appropriate action and that it is grounded in his
account of roles. Finally, Epictetus downplays the Stoic ideal of
the sage and replaces that figure with role-bound individuals who
are supposed to inspire each of us to meet the challenges of our
own roles. Instead of looking to sages, who have a perfect
knowledge and action that we must imitate, Epictetus's new ethical
heroes are those we do not imitate in terms of knowledge or action,
but simply in the way they approach the challenges of their roles.
The analysis found in The Role Ethics of Epictetus will be of great
value both to students and scholars of ancient philosophy, ethics
and moral philosophy, history, classics, and theology, and to the
educated reader who admires Epictetus.
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