Determinism, freedom, and moral responsibility : essays in ancient philosophy / Susanne Bobzien.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bobzien, Susanne, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aristotle.

Free will and determinism.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Responsibility.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 323 pages)

Other Title:

Essays in ancient philosophy

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Determinism, Freedom, and Moral Responsibility features nine essays on determinism, freedom, and moral responsibility in ancient thought. Bobzien shows how the concept of free will entered metaphysical and moral debates only at a relatively late stage.

Contents:

The inadvertent conception and late birth of the free-will problem : Aristotle to Alexander of Aphrodisias

Choice and moral responsibility in Nicomachean ethics 3.1-5 51

Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics l 113b7-8 and free choice

Found in translation : Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics 3.5, 1113b7

8 and its reception

Moral responsibility and moral development in Epicurus' philosophy

Did Epicurus discover the free-will problem?

Stoic conceptions of freedom and their relation to ethics : early stoics, Epictetus, late stoics

Early stoic determinism : the merging of teleology and universal causation

Chrysippus' theory of causes

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-189889-9

0-19-263656-1

OCLC:

1251441644