Published on August 24, 2025 3:33 AM GMT Achieving moral excellence is achieving moral autonomy, stages 5 and 6 on Kohlberg's scale. Greco-Roman Stoicism, greatly influenced by the West's discovery of Buddhism, preached moral excellence and, therefore, autonomy. This meant that those seeking such excellence no longer depended on conventions or legal codifications that, as casuistry, designated good and evil. The moral man—Stoicism was strongly masculine—assumes the revelation of s...
