Stoicism

[Angrboda]

Could you explain more?  I'm not sure in what way you see it as selfish.

Because stoicism doesn’t take into account the value of other people, or the greater good. The ‘well-lived life’ is purely personal.

This is fine as far as it goes, I just don’t see how practicing virtue benefits anyone beyond the practitioner. Might as well be a hermit in a cave.

Boru

I've always viewed the different branches of ethics, virtue ethics and the others, as different approaches to the same goal. One tries to be virtuous so that one will behave as a good person should, and being good contributes to the prospering of the whole as that itself is part of the good. I don't view Stoicism as advocating virtue for virtues sake alone any more than deontologists view following rules as being valuable in and of itself. The point is to free oneself from the internal obstacles which would prevent acting on one's principles for the benefit of the good, whether that good is of the person or society.