Determinism, Freedom, and Moral Responsibility
Essays in Ancient Philosophy
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 20 May 2021
- ISBN 9780198866732
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 239x163x24 mm
- Weight 690 g
- Language English 155
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Short description:
Determinism, Freedom, and Moral Responsibility features nine essays on determinism, freedom, and moral responsibility in ancient thought. Bobzien shows how the concept of free will entered metaphysical and moral debates only at a relatively late stage.
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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.
Susanne Bobzien is our most important scholar of determinism, freedom, and moral responsibility in ancient philosophy. Determinism, Freedom, and Moral Responsibility collects her nine irreplaceable essays on various aspects of this topic, covering the period from Aristotle to Alexander of Aphrodisias, all of which have been revised for inclusion here.
Table of Contents:
Notes on Original Publication
Preface
Introduction
The Inadvertent Conception and Late Birth of the Free-Will Problem: Aristotle to Alexander of Aphrodisias
Choice and Moral Responsibility in Nicomachean Ethics 3.1-5
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics 1113b7 8 and Free Choice
Found in Translation: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics 3.5, 1113b7-8 and Its Reception
Moral Responsibility and Moral Development in Epicurus' Philosophy
Did Epicurus Discover the Free-Will Problem?
Stoic Conceptions of Freedom and their Relation to Ethics: Early Stoics, Epictetus, Late Stoics
Early Stoic Determinism: The Merging of Teleology and Universal Causation
Chrysippus' Theory of Causes
