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A free will : origins of the notion in ancient thought / Michael Frede ; edited by A.A. Long ; with a foreword by David Sedley.
LIBRA B187.F7 F74 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frede, Michael.
- Series:
- Sather classical lectures ; v. 68.
- Sather classical lectures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Free will and determinism--History.
- Free will and determinism.
- History.
- Philosophy, Ancient.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 206 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- Aristotle on choice without a will
- The emergence of a notion of will in Stoicism
- Later Platonist and Peripatetic contributions
- The emergence of a notion of a free will in Stoicism
- Platonist and Peripatetic criticisms and responses
- An early Christian view on a free will : Origen
- Reactions to the Stoic notion of a free will : Plotinus
- Augustine : a radically new notion of a free will?
- Notes:
- "An edited version of the six lectures Michael Frede delivered as the 84th Sather Professor of Classical Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Fall semester of 1997/98"--Pref.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520268487
- 0520268482
- OCLC:
- 632225894
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