A free will
origins of the notion in ancient thought
by Michael Frede
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Where does the notion of free will come from? How and when did it develop, and what did that development involve? In Michael Frede's radically new account of the history of this idea, the notion of a free will emerged from powerful assumptions about the relation between divine providence, correctness of individual choice, and self-enslavement due to incorrect choice. Anchoring his discussion in Stoicism, Frede begins with Aristotle--who, he argues, had no notion of a free will--and ends with Augustine. Frede shows that Augustine, far from originating the idea (as is often claimed), derived most of his thinking about it from the Stoicism developed by Epictetus. - Publisher.
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A free will: origins of the notion in ancient thought
2011, University of California Press
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"An edited version of the six lectures Michael Frede delivered as the 84th Sather Professor of Classical Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Fall semester of 1997/98"--Pref.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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