ABSTRACT
This chapter will attempt to demonstrate that Alan Gewirth's rationalist ethical theory, based on the Principle of Generic Consistency (PGC) is, in all its different facets, paradigmatically and essentially stoic in its structure, scope, and schematically, in its content. To demonstrate the essential stoic features of Gewirth's ethical theory, I will refer extensively to relevant passages in Gewirth's book, Self-Fulfillment (1998), which bears close similarities to stoic ethics, especially as regards the stoic views on eudaimonia, or happiness, virtue, and reason. I will argue that Gewirth's notion of ‘self-fulfillment’ is a neo-stoic version of stoic ‘eudaimonia’.
