Ancient Ethical Theory. Parry, R. In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, Fall 2014 edition, 2014. ![Ancient Ethical Theory [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper abstract bibtex While moral theory does not invent morality, or even reflection onit, it does try to bring systematic thinking to bear on the phenomenon.Ancient moral theory, however, does not attempt to be a comprehensiveaccount of all the phenomena that fall under the heading of morality.Rather, assuming piecemeal opinions and practices, it tries to captureits underlying essence. It is the nature of such an enterprise toevaluate and criticize some of these opinions and practices but that isnot its primary goal. Ancient moral theory tries to provide areflective account of an essential human activity so one can grasp whatis of fundamental importance in pursuing it. In historical order, thetheories to be considered in this article are those of Socrates aspresented in certain dialogues of Plato; Plato in theRepublic; Aristotle; the Cynics; Cyrenaic hedonism; Epicurus;the Stoics; and Pyrrhonian skepticism.
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