Determinism and freedom in stoic philosophy

"Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy is the first comprehensive study of one of the most important intellectual legacies of the ancient Greek world: the Stoic theory of causal determinism. The book identifies the main problems that the Stoics addressed and reconstructs the theory, and explores how they squared their determinism with their conceptions of possibility, action, freedom, and moral responsibility, and how they defended it against objections and criticism by other philosophers."--Jacket.

First sentence: Although from the second century BC to the third century AD the problems of determination were discussed almost exclusively under the heading of fate, early Stoic determinism, as introduced by Zeno and elaborated by Chrysippus, seems to have been developed largely in Stoic writings on physics, independently of any specific 'theory of fate'.

Year

1998

Language

English

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Editions

4

Pages

456

ISBN

9780199247677

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