| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 206 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Sather classical lectures ; v. 68
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Sather classical lectures ; v. 68.
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| Note |
"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"--Preface. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Aristotle on choice without a will -- The emergence of a notion of will in Stoicism -- Later Platonist and Peripatetic contributions -- The emergence of a notion of a free will in Stoicism -- Platonist and Peripatetic criticisms and responses -- An early Christian view on a free will : Origen -- Reactions to the Stoic notion of a free will : Plotinus -- Augustine : a radically new notion of a free will? |
| Summary |
Where does the notion of free will come from? How and when did it develop, and what did that development involve? Here, the author provides a radical new account of the history of this idea. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Free will and determinism -- History.
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Free will and determinism. |
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History. |
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Philosophy, Ancient.
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Philosophy, Ancient. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Long, A. A.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Frede, Michael. Free will. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011 9780520268487 (DLC) 2010020858 (OCoLC)632225894 |
| ISBN |
9780520948372 (electronic book) |
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0520948378 (electronic book) |
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1283277603 |
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9781283277600 |
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9780520268487 |
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0520268482 |
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