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ancient greeks
aristotelian philosophy
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augustine
Author_Michael Frede
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christian thinkers
christianity
divine providence
divine will
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epictetus
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free will
greek philosophy
individual choice
metaphysics
nonfiction
peripatetic
philosophy
plato
providence
rational choice
rational self interest
religion
self control
self enslavement
spirituality
stoic philosophy
stoicism
theory of assent
volition
will
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- ISBN 9780520268487
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2011
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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? 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.
Michael Frede, who died in 2007, held positions successively in the departments of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, Princeton University, and Oxford University, where he held the Chair of the History of Philosophy. In 1997-1998, he was Sather Professor of Classical Literature at UC Berkeley, where he delivered the lectures that make up this volume. A. A. Long is Professor of Classics, Irving Stone Professor of Literature, and Affiliated Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life and From Epicurus to Epictetus: Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy. David Sedley is Lawrence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and the author of Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity (UC Press).
