Determinism, Freedom, and Moral Responsibility: Essays in Ancient Philosophy 1st Edition

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• ISBN-10: 0192636561
• ISBN-13: 9780192636560
• Author: Susanne Bobzien

Determinism, Freedom, and Moral Responsibility brings together nine essays on determinism, freedom and moral responsibility in antiquity by Susanne Bobzien. The essays present the main ancient theories of determinism, freedom, and moral responsibility ranging from Aristotle via Epicureans and Stoics to Alexander of Aphrodisias in the third century CE. The author discusses questions about rational and autonomous human agency and their compatibility with preceding causes, external or internal; with external impediments; with divine predetermination and theological questions; with physical theories like atomism and continuum theory, and with the sciences more generally; with elements that determine character development from childhood, such as nature and nurture; with epistemic features such as ignorance of circumstances; with necessity and modal theories generally; with folk theories of fatalism; and also with questions of how human autonomous agency is related to moral development, virtue and wisdom, blame and praise. Historically unified, philosophically profound, and methodologically rigorous, Bobzien’s discussions show that in classical and Hellenistic philosophy these topics were all debated without reference to freedom to do otherwise or to free will, and that the latter two notions were fully developed only later.

Table contents:

1: The Inadvertent Conception and Late Birth of the Free-Will Problem: Aristotle to Alexander of Aph

2: Choice and Moral Responsibility in Nicomachean Ethics 3.1–5

3: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics 1113b7–8 and Free Choice

4: Found in Translation: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics 3.5, 1113b7–8 and Its Reception

5: Moral Responsibility and Moral Development in Epicurus’ Philosophy

6: Did Epicurus Discover the Free-Will Problem?

7: Stoic Conceptions of Freedom and Their Relation to Ethics: Early Stoics, Epictetus, Late Stoics

8: Early Stoic Determinism: The Merging of Teleology and Universal Causation

9: Chrysippus’ Theory of Causes

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