A free will : origins of the notion in ancient thought /

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Where does the notion of free will come from? How and when did it develop, and what did that development involve? Here, the author provides a radical new account of the history of this idea.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Frede, Michael
Other Authors: Long, A. A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2011]
Series:Sather classical lectures ; v. 68.
Subjects:
Free will and determinism > History.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Libre arbitre et déterminisme > Histoire.
Philosophie ancienne.
PHILOSOPHY > Free Will & Determinism.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Ancient & Classical.
Free will and determinism
Philosophy, Ancient
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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?

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