Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy

Name: Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy
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ISBN: 9780199247677

ISBN-10: 0199247676

ISBN-13: 9780199247677

Edition: 2001

Authors: Susanne Bobzien

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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. It shows how the Stoics distinguished their causal determinism from ancient theories of logical determinism, fatalism, and necessitarianism. Along the way an authoritative account is given of many…

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List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/7/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 454
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Introduction



Determinism and Fate



Two Chrysippean Arguments for Causal Determinism



Modality, Determinism, and Freedom



Divination, Modality,and Universal Regularity



Fate, Action, and Motivation: The Idle Argument



Determinism and Moral Responsibility: Chrysippus's Compatibilism



Freedom and that which Depends on us: Epictetus and Early Stoics



A Later Stoic Theory of Compatibilism


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