Matthew Dennis is a doctoral researcher on the joint-PhD programme of the universities of Warwick (UK) and Monash (Australia), specialising in philosophical accounts of character-development and self-cultivation. His current work draws on French and German philosophy, exploring how these traditions have the resources to contribute to debates in Anglophone ethics. He has published on Nietzsche, Kant, and virtue theory, and is currently writing on the philosophy of technology.Sander Werkhoven is an Assistant Professor of Ethics at the Department of Philosophy at Utrecht University and a member of the Ethics Institute. His main research areas are the philosophy of medicine and psychiatry, normative ethics, and meta-ethics. He has published on theories of health and well-being in international journals, and has papers forthcoming on Nietzsche, Canguilhem, and Foucault.

"This book makes an important contribution to the growing body of literature on the cultivation of virtue. It focuses on the influence of Hellenistic tradition, with its emphasis on the continued development of the self, on modern philosophy, and also includes a number of contemporary perspectives on moral self-cultivation. The volume will be of interest to scholars and graduate students in moral philosophy, moral psychology, philosophy of mind and epistemology." – Liezl van Zyl, University of Waikato, New Zealand

• Preface Michael SloteIntroduction Matthew Dennis and Sander WerkhovenPart I: Historical Perspectives1. Roman Stoic Mindfulness: An Ancient Technology of the Self John Sellars2. Affective Therapy: Spinoza’s Approach to Self-Cultivation Aurelia Armstrong3. Was I just Lucky?: Kant on Self-Opacity and Self-Cultivation Irina Schumski4. Nietzsche and Kant on Epicurus and Self-Cultivation Keith Ansell-Pearson5. Nietzsche’s Ethics of Self-Cultivation and Eternity Michael Ure6. Ilsetraut Hadot’s Seneca: Spiritual Direction and the Transformation of the Other Matthew Sharpe7. Foucault, Stoicism and Self-Mastery Katrina MitchesonPart II: Contemporary Perspectives8. Neo-Aristotelianism: Virtue, Habituation, and Self-Cultivation Dawa Ometto and Annemarie Kalis9. Formal Excellences and Familiar Excellences Edward Harcourt10. Cultivating an Integrated Self Luke Brunning11. Moral Perception and Relational Self-Cultivation: Reassessing Attunement as a Virtue Anna BergqvistEpilogue: Reflections on the Value of Self-Knowledge for Self-Cultivation Quassim Cassam, Matthew Dennis, Sander Werkhoven

Matthew Dennis is a doctoral researcher on the joint-PhD programme of the universities of Warwick (UK) and Monash (Australia), specialising in philosophical accounts of character-development and self-cultivation. His current work draws on French and German philosophy, exploring how these traditions have the resources to contribute to debates in Anglophone ethics. He has published on Nietzsche, Kant, and virtue theory, and is currently writing on the philosophy of technology.Sander Werkhoven is an Assistant Professor of Ethics at the Department of Philosophy at Utrecht University and a member of the Ethics Institute. His main research areas are the philosophy of medicine and psychiatry, normative ethics, and meta-ethics. He has published on theories of health and well-being in international journals, and has papers forthcoming on Nietzsche, Canguilhem, and Foucault.

"This book makes an important contribution to the growing body of literature on the cultivation of virtue. It focuses on the influence of Hellenistic tradition, with its emphasis on the continued development of the self, on modern philosophy, and also includes a number of contemporary perspectives on moral self-cultivation. The volume will be of interest to scholars and graduate students in moral philosophy, moral psychology, philosophy of mind and epistemology." – Liezl van Zyl, University of Waikato, New Zealand

• Preface Michael SloteIntroduction Matthew Dennis and Sander WerkhovenPart I: Historical Perspectives1. Roman Stoic Mindfulness: An Ancient Technology of the Self John Sellars2. Affective Therapy: Spinoza’s Approach to Self-Cultivation Aurelia Armstrong3. Was I just Lucky?: Kant on Self-Opacity and Self-Cultivation Irina Schumski4. Nietzsche and Kant on Epicurus and Self-Cultivation Keith Ansell-Pearson5. Nietzsche’s Ethics of Self-Cultivation and Eternity Michael Ure6. Ilsetraut Hadot’s Seneca: Spiritual Direction and the Transformation of the Other Matthew Sharpe7. Foucault, Stoicism and Self-Mastery Katrina MitchesonPart II: Contemporary Perspectives8. Neo-Aristotelianism: Virtue, Habituation, and Self-Cultivation Dawa Ometto and Annemarie Kalis9. Formal Excellences and Familiar Excellences Edward Harcourt10. Cultivating an Integrated Self Luke Brunning11. Moral Perception and Relational Self-Cultivation: Reassessing Attunement as a Virtue Anna BergqvistEpilogue: Reflections on the Value of Self-Knowledge for Self-Cultivation Quassim Cassam, Matthew Dennis, Sander Werkhoven

Matthew Dennis is a doctoral researcher on the joint-PhD programme of the universities of Warwick (UK) and Monash (Australia), specialising in philosophical accounts of character-development and self-cultivation. His current work draws on French and German philosophy, exploring how these traditions have the resources to contribute to debates in Anglophone ethics. He has published on Nietzsche, Kant, and virtue theory, and is currently writing on the philosophy of technology.Sander Werkhoven is an Assistant Professor of Ethics at the Department of Philosophy at Utrecht University and a member of the Ethics Institute. His main research areas are the philosophy of medicine and psychiatry, normative ethics, and meta-ethics. He has published on theories of health and well-being in international journals, and has papers forthcoming on Nietzsche, Canguilhem, and Foucault.

"This book makes an important contribution to the growing body of literature on the cultivation of virtue. It focuses on the influence of Hellenistic tradition, with its emphasis on the continued development of the self, on modern philosophy, and also includes a number of contemporary perspectives on moral self-cultivation. The volume will be of interest to scholars and graduate students in moral philosophy, moral psychology, philosophy of mind and epistemology." – Liezl van Zyl, University of Waikato, New Zealand

• Preface Michael SloteIntroduction Matthew Dennis and Sander WerkhovenPart I: Historical Perspectives1. Roman Stoic Mindfulness: An Ancient Technology of the Self John Sellars2. Affective Therapy: Spinoza’s Approach to Self-Cultivation Aurelia Armstrong3. Was I just Lucky?: Kant on Self-Opacity and Self-Cultivation Irina Schumski4. Nietzsche and Kant on Epicurus and Self-Cultivation Keith Ansell-Pearson5. Nietzsche’s Ethics of Self-Cultivation and Eternity Michael Ure6. Ilsetraut Hadot’s Seneca: Spiritual Direction and the Transformation of the Other Matthew Sharpe7. Foucault, Stoicism and Self-Mastery Katrina MitchesonPart II: Contemporary Perspectives8. Neo-Aristotelianism: Virtue, Habituation, and Self-Cultivation Dawa Ometto and Annemarie Kalis9. Formal Excellences and Familiar Excellences Edward Harcourt10. Cultivating an Integrated Self Luke Brunning11. Moral Perception and Relational Self-Cultivation: Reassessing Attunement as a Virtue Anna BergqvistEpilogue: Reflections on the Value of Self-Knowledge for Self-Cultivation Quassim Cassam, Matthew Dennis, Sander Werkhoven