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A free will : origins of the notion in ancient thought

Title
A free will : origins of the notion in ancient thought / Michael Frede ; edited by A.A. Long ; with a foreword by David Sedley.
Author
Frede, Michael.
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.

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Additional Authors
Long, A. A.
Description
xiv, 206 p.; 22 cm.
Series Statement
Sather classical lectures ; v. 68
Uniform Title
Sather classical lectures ; v. 68.
Subjects
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"--Pref.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-202) 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?
Call Number
JFD 11-1399
ISBN
  • 0520268482 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780520268487 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2010020858
OCLC
632225894
Author
Frede, Michael.
Title
A free will : origins of the notion in ancient thought / Michael Frede ; edited by A.A. Long ; with a foreword by David Sedley.
Imprint
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.
Series
Sather classical lectures ; v. 68
Sather classical lectures ; v. 68.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-202) and index.
Added Author
Long, A. A.
Research Call Number
JFD 11-1399
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