A Critical Study of Stoic and Epicurean Ethics

Abstract

The revival of virtue ethics, applied and practical philosophy in the contemporary epoch newlineis strikingly an expedient phenomenon to the whole philosophical enterprise. Conceivably, this newlinerevival would not have been possible without the ancient Greek philosophical legacy. And no newlinematter what, stoics and epicureans school of thought have a great contribution to this holistic newlineproject. But the problem is that when we try to comprehend the history of Greek philosophy newlineand ethics, the thinkers who get the preference are Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, and so on. newlineNoticeably, they were the stalwarts of Greek philosophical tradition, but it doesn t mean that newlinethere was no other tradition of philosophy and ethics. It is the thing which we have highlight newlinein this thesis that the contribution of the Stoic and Epicurean school of thought is quite newlinenoteworthy. newline