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Determinism and freedom in stoic philosophy /

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The author presents a study of one of the most important intellectual legacies of the ancient Greek world. She identifies the problems that the Stoic tradition addressed and reconstructs the theory whilst exploring their defence of determinism.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bobzien, Susanne
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford : Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1998.
Subjects:
Stoics.
Free will and determinism > History.
Stoïcisme.
Libre arbitre et déterminisme > Histoire.
stoicism.
PHILOSOPHY > Free Will & Determinism.
Free will and determinism
Stoics
Determinisme.
Vrijheid.
Stoa.
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Determinism and Fate
  • 2. Two Chrysippean Arguments for Causal Determinism
  • 3. Modality, Determinism, and Freedom
  • 4. Divination, Modality, and Universal Regularity
  • 5. Fate, Action, and Motivation: The Idle Argument
  • 6. Determinism and Moral Responsibility: Chrysippus' Compatibilism
  • 7. Freedom and that which Depends on us: Epictetus and Early Stoics
  • 8. A Later Stoic Theory of Compatibilism.