A free will : origins of the notion in ancient thought / edited by A.A. Long ; with a foreword by David Sedley.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Sather classical lectures ; v. 68Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.Description: xiv, 206 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780520268487 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 123/.5093 22
LOC classification:
  • B187.F7 F74 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?
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"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.

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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