Daniel Doyle reconstructs the moral foundation of stoicism in a new contribution to the Reason and Normativity collection
This publication is the tenth volume in the collection, which is published by Olms-Weidmann and organized by the Natural Law and Practical Rationality project of the ICS at the University of Navarra
Daniel Doyle, research fellow within the Natural Law and Practical Rationality project of the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS), offers a critical analysis of the Stoic theory of oikeiosis in his new book, proposing a systematic reconstruction of the natural basis of morality in this philosophical school. The volume, entitled La doctrina estoica de la oikeiosis. Reconstrucción sistemática de la fundamentación de la moral en el estoicismo (The Stoic doctrine of oikeiosis. A systematic reconstruction of the basis of morality in Stoicism) is the tenth publication in the ‘Reason and Normativity' collection, which is published by OLMS-Weidmann and organized by the aforementioned project at the Humanities and Social Sciences research center of the University of Navarra.
As Doyle claims in the introduction to the book, "What is striking about this theory is the fact that, although it is guided by the notion of self-preservation, the Stoics did not develop an ethic of survival or take on any other variant of the usual ethical egoism; rather, they developed a model of ethics full of social content, which acquires a universal and cosmopolitan character."
Drawing from classical sources and contemporary scholarshipThrough a detailed study of classical sources and by maintaining a dialogue with leading contemporary scholars in the field, Daniel Doyle covers the different modulation stages of natural impulses that occur in humans with the emergence of reason and also explains in what sense, for a Stoic, the attainment of virtue is equivalent to "a life in harmony with nature."
The book corresponds to the publication of Daniel Doyle's dissertation, which received the 2012-2013 Extraordinary Doctoral Thesis Award fro
m the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. Alejandro G. Vigo, professor of Philosophy at the University of Navarra and principal investigator of the Natural Law and Practical Rationality project, served as Doyle's director.
Reason and Normativity is an Olms-Weidmann series, a publishing house with an international and academic reputation that distributes in Germany, Switzerland, the United States and France. The collection is edited by Alejandro G. Vigo and Ana Marta González, who is principal investigator of the Emotional Culture and Identity project.