65 Chapter three A Later (and Nonstandard) Aristotelian Account of Moral Motivation Brad Inwood Moral motivation raises a fundamental question in ethics, though as I will show it can be a slippery issue in the context of much of the Greco- Roman philosophical tradition. I want to discuss a particular approach to the question, one that arises in an unusual context, in a little-known text from Greco-Roman antiquity. It is an Aristotelian text, but it’s not by Aristotle. In fact, it’s not even by one of his famous followers: not Teophrastus, not Alexander of Aphrodisias, not even Aspasius or Critolaus. In fact, we don’t know the name of this particular Aristote- lian, since he (presumably he) is the author of a theory that we fnd only in a passage from the Anthology by John of Stobi (ffh century ad). Stobi was a town in northern Greece, and John assembled a long (about ten inches of shelf space in very small type) collection of ex- tracts from literature and philosophy, for the moral improvement of his son. (We have no information as to the success of this pedagogical strategy in John’s day; I have my suspicions about the efectiveness of Dictionary: NOAD