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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
The Inadvertent Conception and Late Birth of the Free-Will Problem
Contributor:
Bobzien, Susanne
imprint:
Brill, 1998
Published in:Phronesis
Language:
Not determined
DOI:
10.1163/15685289860511069
ISSN:
0031-8868;
1568-5284
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<jats:sec><jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>In this paper I argue that the "discovery" of the problem of causal determinism and freedom of decision in Greek philosophy is the result of a mix-up of Aristotelian and Stoic thought in later antiquity; more precisely, a (mis-)interpretation of Aristotle's philosophy of deliberate choice and action in the light of Stoic theory of determinism and moral responsibility. The (con-)fusion originates with the beginnings of Aristotle scholarship, at the latest in the early 2nd century A.D. It undergoes several developments, absorbing Epictetan, Middle-Platonist, and Peripatetic ideas; and it leads eventually to a concept of freedom of decision and an exposition of the "free-will problem" in Alexander of Aphrodisias' On Fate and in the Mantissa ascribed to him.</jats:p>
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