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A free will : origins of the notion in ancient thought / edited by A.A. Long ; with a foreword by David Sedley.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frede, Michael.
- Series:
- Sather classical lectures ; v. 68.
- Sather classical lectures ; v. 68
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Free will and determinism--History.
- Free will and determinism.
- Philosophy, Ancient.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (223 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Where does the notion of free will come from? How and when did it develop, and what did that development involve? In Michael Frede's radically new account of the history of this idea, the notion of a free will emerged from powerful assumptions about the relation between divine providence, correctness of individual choice, and self-enslavement due to incorrect choice. Anchoring his discussion in Stoicism, Frede begins with Aristotle--who, he argues, had no notion of a free will--and ends with Augustine. Frede shows that Augustine, far from originating the idea (as is often claimed), derived most of his thinking about it from the Stoicism developed by Epictetus.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Editor's Preface
- Chapter One. Introduction
- Chapter Two. Aristotle on Choice without a Will
- Chapter Three. The Emergence of a Notion of Will in Stoicism
- Chapter Four. Later Platonist and Peripatetic Contributions
- Chapter Five. The Emergence of a Notion of a Free Will in Stoicism
- chapter Six. Platonist and Peripatetic Criticisms and Responses
- Chapter Seven An Early Christian View on a Free Will: Origen
- Chapter Eight. Reactions to the Stoic Notion of a Free Will: Plotinus
- Chapter Nine. Augustine: A Radically New Notion of a Free Will ?
- Chapter Ten. Conclusion
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- 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:
- 9786613277602
- 9781283277600
- 1283277603
- 9780520948372
- 0520948378
- OCLC:
- 700701927
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