A free will : origins of the notion in ancient thought
Michael Frede & A. A. Long & David Sedley
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.
년:
2011
출판사:
University of California Press
언어:
english
페이지:
206
ISBN 10:
1283277603
ISBN 13:
9781283277600
시리즈:
Sather classical lectures 68
파일:
EPUB, 257 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2011