Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9780198237945 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 456 str.

Susanne Bobzien

Opis

Bobzien presents the definitive study of one of the most interesting intellectual legacies of the ancient Greeks: the Stoic theory of causal determinism. She explains what it was, how the Stoics justified it, and how it relates to their views on possibility, action, freedom, moral responsibility, and many other topics. She demonstrates the considerable philosophical richness and power that these ideas retain today.

Recenzje

This is an awe-inspiring work ... It is extraordinarily ambitious. It aims to recover and understand, so far as the sources allow, the entire early Stoic theory of fate, causal determinism, and responsibility. It achieves this ambition while at the same time showing how immensely more difficult the task is than anyone had appreciated before ... It will most certainly be the first work that everybody interested has to get to grips with. They will have to start here both because the book is a model of scholarly method and because it is an outstanding example of lucid philosophical thinking in an area where clear thought is extremely difficult.

O autorze

Susanne Bobzien is Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at The Queen's College, Oxford.