Publication

1998 - Clarendon Press, Oxford, England

Language

English

Word Count

110,250 words, Guess

Page Count

441 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing163835
  • Goodreads1237844

Classifications

  • DDC123/.0938
  • LCCB528 .B576 1998

Description

"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'.

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  • Determinism and freedom in stoic philosophyClarendon Press1998-01-01

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