ISBN10: 0198866739, ISBN13: 9780198866732, [publisher: OUP OXFORD 2021-05-20, Oxford] Hardcover Language: ENG
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2021]

ISBN10: 0198866739, ISBN13: 9780198866732, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. 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 withpreceding 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 moregenerally; 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 andHellenistic 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. Determinism, Freedom, and Moral ...
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[Southport, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2021]