Determinism and freedom in stoic philosophy [[electronic resource] /] / Susanne Bobzien |
Autore | Bobzien Susanne |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Clarendon Press |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (454 p.) |
Disciplina | 123/.0938 |
Soggetto topico |
Stoics
Free will and determinism - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
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9786611970437
1-281-97043-3 |
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Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
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Determinism and freedom in stoic philosophy [[electronic resource] /] / Susanne Bobzien |
Autore | Bobzien Susanne |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Clarendon Press |
Descrizione fisica | xi, 441 p |
Soggetto topico |
Stoics
Free will and determinism - History |
ISBN |
9780191519314
0191519316 |
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Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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Determinism and freedom in stoic philosophy / / Susanne Bobzien |
Autore | Bobzien Susanne |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Clarendon Press |
Descrizione fisica | xi, 441 p |
Disciplina | 188 |
Soggetto topico |
Stoics
Free will and determinism - History |
ISBN |
9780191519314
0191519316 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 DETERMINISM AND FATE -- 1.1 Physical and ontological foundations -- 1.1.1 The active principle -- 1.1.2 Causation -- 1.1.3 Motions and qualitative states -- 1.2 Teleological determinism defined -- 1.3 Causal determinism defined -- 1.3.1 The anti-Stoic argument for spontaneous motions -- 1.3.2 Chrysippus' reply -- 1.3.3 Causal determinism -- 1.4 Fate -- 1.4.1 Fate is God is Providence is Nature is the Active Principle . . . -- 1.4.2 The main aspects of fate -- 1.4.3 Teleological and mechanical aspects of Stoic determinism combined -- 1.4.4 The Fate Principle -- 2 TWO CHRYSIPPEAN ARGUMENTS FOR CAUSAL DETERMINISM -- 2.1 Causal determinism and the Principle of Bivalence -- 2.1.1 Chrysippus' Bivalence Argument -- 2.1.2 Chrysippus versus Epicurus on truth and fate -- 2.2 Causal determinism and prediction -- 2.2.1 Chrysippus' concept of divination -- 2.2.2 Chrysippus' proof of fate through the existence of divination -- 2.2.3 Causal determinism as necessary condition for the existence of divination -- 3 MODALITY, DETERMINISM, AND FREEDOM -- 3.1 Modal logic and the threat of determinism -- 3.1.1 Hellenistic modalities in general -- 3.1.2 Diodorus and necessitarianism -- 3.1.3 Philo and conceptual or essentialist modalities -- 3.1.4 Chrysippus' modal system -- 3.1.5 Contingency and freedom -- 3.1.6 Appendix: Identification of Chrysippus' modal notions -- 3.2 Objection: Stoic determinism and Stoic modal logic are incompatible -- 3.3 A Stoic reply: fate and epistemic modalities -- 3.4 Chrysippus' distinction between Necessity and that which is necessary -- 3.4.1 The textual evidence -- 3.4.2 Necessity and that which is necessary and their relation to fate -- 4 DIVINATION, MODALITY, AND UNIVERSAL REGULARITY -- 4.1 Objection: divination and Stoic contingency are incompatible.
4.1.1 The divinatory theorem -- 4.1.2 The second argument against the Stoics -- 4.1.3 The first argument against the Stoics -- 4.1.4 The relation between the two arguments -- 4.1.5 Chrysippus' modal notions conflict with divination -- 4.2 Chrysippus' reply: active causation versus regularity of occurrents -- 4.2.1 Negated conjunctions in lieu of conditionals -- 4.2.2 Divinatory theorems, sign-relations, and causation -- 4.2.3 A modification of the anti-Stoic objection -- 4.2.4 Divination, determinism, and human action -- 4.2.5 Appendix: Conditional predictions -- 5 FATE, ACTION, AND MOTIVATION: THE IDLE ARGUMENT -- 5.1 The Idle Argument -- 5.1.1 Exposition of the argument -- 5.1.2 The plausibility of the argument -- 5.1.3 Futility and goal-directed activity -- 5.1.4 Is the Idle Argument a sophism? -- 5.2 Replies to the Idle Argument: the sources -- 5.2.1 Cicero, On Fate 30 -- 5.2.2 Origen, Against Celsus II 20, 342.71-82 -- 5.2.3 Eusebius, Preparation for the Gospel 6.8.25-38 -- 5.3 Chrysippus' refutation: fatalism versus causal determinism -- 5.3.1 Simply fated occurrents reconsidered -- 5.3.2 Co-fatedness and causation -- 5.3.3 Chrysippus' refutation and its implications for his determinism -- 5.3.4 Critique of Chrysippus' refutation -- 6 DETERMINISM AND MORAL RESPONSIBILITY: CHRYSIPPUS' COMPATIBILISM -- 6.1 Some preliminary considerations -- 6.1.1 Overview of the central passages -- 6.1.2 Chrysippus' conception of mind and action -- 6.2 Another argument against fate: fate renders moral appraisal unjust -- 6.2.1 The argument in Gellius -- 6.2.2 The argument in Cicero -- 6.3 Chrysippus' reply -- 6.3.1 Chrysippus' counter in Gellius -- 6.3.2 Chrysippus' formal refutation of the argument in Cicero -- 6.3.3 The cylinder and cone analogy -- 6.3.4 Another Chrysippean argument for moral responsibility. 6.3.5 Freedom, moral responsibility, and that which depends on us -- 6.3.6 Moral responsibility and the determination of character -- 6.3.7 The relation between antecedent causes, fate, and necessity -- 6.4 A later interpretation of Chrysippus' concept of fate? -- 6.4.1 The 'framework story' in Cicero's On Fate -- 6.4.2 Plutarch's dilemma -- 7 FREEDOM AND THAT WHICH DEPENDS ON US: EPICTETUS AND EARLY STOICS -- 7.1 Epictetus and that which depends on us -- 7.2 Freedom -- 7.2.1 The early Stoics on freedom -- 7.2.2 Epictetus on freedom -- 7.2.3 Is the only true freedom? -- 7.2.4 Freedom and that which depends on us in later antiquity -- 7.3 Cleanthes, Epictetus, the dog, and the cart -- 7.3.1 Cleanthes on Destiny -- 7.3.2 Epictetus on Cleanthes on Destiny -- 7.3.3 The dog and cart simile -- 8 A LATER STOIC THEORY OF COMPATIBILISM -- 8.1* Some notes on the sources and the origin of the theory -- 8.2 PHILOPATOR'S causal determinism -- 8.3 The role of fate in PHILOPATOR'S theory -- 8.4 PHILOPATOR'S conception of that which depends on us -- 8.5 PHILOPATOR'S compatibilism -- 8.6 The cylinder in later Stoic fate theory -- 8.7 The rise and fall of the problem of freedom to do otherwise and causal determinism -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- G -- H -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- S -- T -- V -- Index Nominum -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- G -- H -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- S -- T -- X -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- W. |
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Free will : an historical and philosophical introduction / / Ilham Dilman |
Autore | Dilman Ilham |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
Disciplina | 123/.5/09 |
Soggetto topico | Free will and determinism - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-134-63683-0
0-203-00238-5 1-280-33467-3 0-203-15837-7 9786610334674 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover; Free Well: An historical and philosophical introduction; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; Part I: Early Greek thinkers: moral determinism and individual responsibility; 1. Homer and the Iliad: necessity and grace; 1. War: its hazards and necessities; 2. Simone Weil on the Iliad: necessity and grace; 3. Homer's objectivity: love and detachment; 4. The world of human bondage and the possibility of freedom; 2. Sophocles' Oedipus: fate, human destiny and individual responsibility; 1. The meaning of fate and its way of working in Oedipus' life
2. Oedipus's lack of self-knowledge and the way it seals his fate3. Freud's Oedipus complex and the play; 4. Oedipus' lack of freedom and his downfall; 5. Conclusion: was Sophocles a determinist?; 3. Plato and moral determinism; 1. Good, evil and self-mastery - the Phaedrus; 2. Freedom and self-mastery - the Gorgias; 3. Love of goodness and slavery to evil; 4. Conclusion: moral knowledge and freedom; 4. Aristotle: moral knowledge and the problem of free will; 1. Aristotle's treatment of voluntary action and moral responsibility; 2. Are vices voluntary?; 3. Self-mastery and weakness of will 4. ConclusionPart II: The coming of age of Christianity: morality, theology and freedom of the will; 5. St Augustine: free will, the reality of evil, and our dependence on God; 1. Introduction; 2. The reality of free will; 3. Good and evil: free will and God's grace; 4. Free will and God's foreknowledge; 5. Conclusion; 6. St Thomas Aquinas: reason, will and freedom of decision; 1. Introduction; 2. The will as rational appetite and its freedom; 3. The will and the intellect: good and evil; 4. Free will, goodness and grace; 5. Free will and God's foreknowledge; 6. Conclusion Part III: The rise of science: universal causation and human agency7. Descartes' dualism: infinite freedom with limited power; 1. The mind and the body; 2. Human action and the will; 3. Freedom of the will in Descartes; 8. Spinoza: human freedom in a world of strict determinism; 1. Introduction; 2. The most fundamental of Spinoza's conceptions ofdeterminism; 3. Detachment, acceptance and self-knowledge; 4. Finding freedom through yielding to the inevitable; 9. Hume and Kant: reason, passion and free will; 1. 'Passion and reason, self-division's cause'; 2. Hume and Kant: a conceptual dichotomy 3. Kant and Hume on free will and determinism4. Kant's conception of psychology as an 'anthropological science'; Part IV: The age of psychology: reason and feeling, causality and free will; 10. Schopenhauer: free will and determinism; 1. Schopenhauer's arguments for determinism; 2. Flaws in Schopenhauer's arguments; 3. Character and change; 4. Conclusion; 11. Freud: freedom and self-knowledge; 1. Freud on the psychological limitations of humanfreedom; 2. Self-knowledge and change in psycho-analytic therapy; 3. Conclusion; 12. Sartre: freedom as something to which man is condemned 1. Freedom, consciousness and human existence |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999 | ||
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Free will : an historical and philosophical introduction / / Ilham Dilman |
Autore | Dilman Ilham |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
Disciplina | 123/.5/09 |
Soggetto topico | Free will and determinism - History |
ISBN |
1-134-63682-2
1-134-63683-0 0-203-00238-5 1-280-33467-3 0-203-15837-7 9786610334674 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover; Free Well: An historical and philosophical introduction; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; Part I: Early Greek thinkers: moral determinism and individual responsibility; 1. Homer and the Iliad: necessity and grace; 1. War: its hazards and necessities; 2. Simone Weil on the Iliad: necessity and grace; 3. Homer's objectivity: love and detachment; 4. The world of human bondage and the possibility of freedom; 2. Sophocles' Oedipus: fate, human destiny and individual responsibility; 1. The meaning of fate and its way of working in Oedipus' life
2. Oedipus's lack of self-knowledge and the way it seals his fate3. Freud's Oedipus complex and the play; 4. Oedipus' lack of freedom and his downfall; 5. Conclusion: was Sophocles a determinist?; 3. Plato and moral determinism; 1. Good, evil and self-mastery - the Phaedrus; 2. Freedom and self-mastery - the Gorgias; 3. Love of goodness and slavery to evil; 4. Conclusion: moral knowledge and freedom; 4. Aristotle: moral knowledge and the problem of free will; 1. Aristotle's treatment of voluntary action and moral responsibility; 2. Are vices voluntary?; 3. Self-mastery and weakness of will 4. ConclusionPart II: The coming of age of Christianity: morality, theology and freedom of the will; 5. St Augustine: free will, the reality of evil, and our dependence on God; 1. Introduction; 2. The reality of free will; 3. Good and evil: free will and God's grace; 4. Free will and God's foreknowledge; 5. Conclusion; 6. St Thomas Aquinas: reason, will and freedom of decision; 1. Introduction; 2. The will as rational appetite and its freedom; 3. The will and the intellect: good and evil; 4. Free will, goodness and grace; 5. Free will and God's foreknowledge; 6. Conclusion Part III: The rise of science: universal causation and human agency7. Descartes' dualism: infinite freedom with limited power; 1. The mind and the body; 2. Human action and the will; 3. Freedom of the will in Descartes; 8. Spinoza: human freedom in a world of strict determinism; 1. Introduction; 2. The most fundamental of Spinoza's conceptions ofdeterminism; 3. Detachment, acceptance and self-knowledge; 4. Finding freedom through yielding to the inevitable; 9. Hume and Kant: reason, passion and free will; 1. 'Passion and reason, self-division's cause'; 2. Hume and Kant: a conceptual dichotomy 3. Kant and Hume on free will and determinism4. Kant's conception of psychology as an 'anthropological science'; Part IV: The age of psychology: reason and feeling, causality and free will; 10. Schopenhauer: free will and determinism; 1. Schopenhauer's arguments for determinism; 2. Flaws in Schopenhauer's arguments; 3. Character and change; 4. Conclusion; 11. Freud: freedom and self-knowledge; 1. Freud on the psychological limitations of humanfreedom; 2. Self-knowledge and change in psycho-analytic therapy; 3. Conclusion; 12. Sartre: freedom as something to which man is condemned 1. Freedom, consciousness and human existence |
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Dilman Ilham
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999 | ||
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Free will : an historical and philosophical introduction / / Ilham Dilman |
Autore | Dilman Ilham |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1999 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
Disciplina | 123/.5/09 |
Soggetto topico | Free will and determinism - History |
ISBN |
1-134-63682-2
1-134-63683-0 0-203-00238-5 1-280-33467-3 0-203-15837-7 9786610334674 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover; Free Well: An historical and philosophical introduction; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; Part I: Early Greek thinkers: moral determinism and individual responsibility; 1. Homer and the Iliad: necessity and grace; 1. War: its hazards and necessities; 2. Simone Weil on the Iliad: necessity and grace; 3. Homer's objectivity: love and detachment; 4. The world of human bondage and the possibility of freedom; 2. Sophocles' Oedipus: fate, human destiny and individual responsibility; 1. The meaning of fate and its way of working in Oedipus' life
2. Oedipus's lack of self-knowledge and the way it seals his fate3. Freud's Oedipus complex and the play; 4. Oedipus' lack of freedom and his downfall; 5. Conclusion: was Sophocles a determinist?; 3. Plato and moral determinism; 1. Good, evil and self-mastery - the Phaedrus; 2. Freedom and self-mastery - the Gorgias; 3. Love of goodness and slavery to evil; 4. Conclusion: moral knowledge and freedom; 4. Aristotle: moral knowledge and the problem of free will; 1. Aristotle's treatment of voluntary action and moral responsibility; 2. Are vices voluntary?; 3. Self-mastery and weakness of will 4. ConclusionPart II: The coming of age of Christianity: morality, theology and freedom of the will; 5. St Augustine: free will, the reality of evil, and our dependence on God; 1. Introduction; 2. The reality of free will; 3. Good and evil: free will and God's grace; 4. Free will and God's foreknowledge; 5. Conclusion; 6. St Thomas Aquinas: reason, will and freedom of decision; 1. Introduction; 2. The will as rational appetite and its freedom; 3. The will and the intellect: good and evil; 4. Free will, goodness and grace; 5. Free will and God's foreknowledge; 6. Conclusion Part III: The rise of science: universal causation and human agency7. Descartes' dualism: infinite freedom with limited power; 1. The mind and the body; 2. Human action and the will; 3. Freedom of the will in Descartes; 8. Spinoza: human freedom in a world of strict determinism; 1. Introduction; 2. The most fundamental of Spinoza's conceptions ofdeterminism; 3. Detachment, acceptance and self-knowledge; 4. Finding freedom through yielding to the inevitable; 9. Hume and Kant: reason, passion and free will; 1. 'Passion and reason, self-division's cause'; 2. Hume and Kant: a conceptual dichotomy 3. Kant and Hume on free will and determinism4. Kant's conception of psychology as an 'anthropological science'; Part IV: The age of psychology: reason and feeling, causality and free will; 10. Schopenhauer: free will and determinism; 1. Schopenhauer's arguments for determinism; 2. Flaws in Schopenhauer's arguments; 3. Character and change; 4. Conclusion; 11. Freud: freedom and self-knowledge; 1. Freud on the psychological limitations of humanfreedom; 2. Self-knowledge and change in psycho-analytic therapy; 3. Conclusion; 12. Sartre: freedom as something to which man is condemned 1. Freedom, consciousness and human existence |
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A free will [[electronic resource] ] : origins of the notion in ancient thought / / edited by A.A. Long ; with a foreword by David Sedley |
Autore | Frede Michael |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (223 p.) |
Disciplina | 123/.5093 |
Altri autori (Persone) | LongA. A |
Collana | Sather classical lectures |
Soggetto topico |
Free will and determinism - History
Philosophy, Ancient |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-27760-3
9786613277602 0-520-94837-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Editor's Preface -- Chapter One. Introduction -- Chapter Two. Aristotle on Choice without a Will -- Chapter Three. The Emergence of a Notion of Will in Stoicism -- Chapter Four. Later Platonist and Peripatetic Contributions -- Chapter Five. The Emergence of a Notion of a Free Will in Stoicism -- chapter Six. Platonist and Peripatetic Criticisms and Responses -- Chapter Seven An Early Christian View on a Free Will: Origen -- Chapter Eight. Reactions to the Stoic Notion of a Free Will: Plotinus -- Chapter Nine. Augustine: A Radically New Notion of a Free Will ? -- Chapter Ten. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Frede Michael
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 | ||
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A free will [[electronic resource] ] : origins of the notion in ancient thought / / edited by A.A. Long ; with a foreword by David Sedley |
Autore | Frede Michael |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (223 p.) |
Disciplina | 123/.5093 |
Altri autori (Persone) | LongA. A |
Collana | Sather classical lectures |
Soggetto topico |
Free will and determinism - History
Philosophy, Ancient |
Soggetto non controllato |
ancient greeks
aristotelian philosophy aristotle augustine christian thinkers christianity divine providence divine will divinity epictetus epistemology free will greek philosophy individual choice metaphysics nonfiction peripatetic philosophy plato providence rational choice rational self interest religion self control self enslavement spirituality stoic philosophy stoicism theory of assent volition will |
ISBN |
1-283-27760-3
9786613277602 0-520-94837-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Editor's Preface -- Chapter One. Introduction -- Chapter Two. Aristotle on Choice without a Will -- Chapter Three. The Emergence of a Notion of Will in Stoicism -- Chapter Four. Later Platonist and Peripatetic Contributions -- Chapter Five. The Emergence of a Notion of a Free Will in Stoicism -- chapter Six. Platonist and Peripatetic Criticisms and Responses -- Chapter Seven An Early Christian View on a Free Will: Origen -- Chapter Eight. Reactions to the Stoic Notion of a Free Will: Plotinus -- Chapter Nine. Augustine: A Radically New Notion of a Free Will ? -- Chapter Ten. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Frede Michael
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 | ||
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A free will : origins of the notion in ancient thought / / edited by A.A. Long ; with a foreword by David Sedley |
Autore | Frede Michael |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (223 p.) |
Disciplina | 123/.5093 |
Altri autori (Persone) | LongA. A |
Collana | Sather classical lectures |
Soggetto topico |
Free will and determinism - History
Philosophy, Ancient |
ISBN |
1-283-27760-3
9786613277602 0-520-94837-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Editor's Preface -- Chapter One. Introduction -- Chapter Two. Aristotle on Choice without a Will -- Chapter Three. The Emergence of a Notion of Will in Stoicism -- Chapter Four. Later Platonist and Peripatetic Contributions -- Chapter Five. The Emergence of a Notion of a Free Will in Stoicism -- chapter Six. Platonist and Peripatetic Criticisms and Responses -- Chapter Seven An Early Christian View on a Free Will: Origen -- Chapter Eight. Reactions to the Stoic Notion of a Free Will: Plotinus -- Chapter Nine. Augustine: A Radically New Notion of a Free Will ? -- Chapter Ten. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Free will, predestination, and determinism [[electronic resource] /] / John Cowburn |
Autore | Cowburn John |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Milwaukee, Wis., : Marquette University Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (268 p.) |
Disciplina | 123/.5 |
Collana | Marquette studies in philosophy |
Soggetto topico |
Free will and determinism - History
Free will and determinism - Religious aspects - Christianity - History of doctrines |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-4416-2352-3
0-87462-827-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
short title; title page; copyright page; table of contents; epigram; Introduction; part 1 the free will doctrine; chapter 1 free will; chapter 2 kinds of things which we do of our own free will; chapter 3 freedom; chapter 4 the inner face of free will: ownership of acts and responsibility; chapter 5 the outer face of free will: unpredictability; chapter 6 chance; part 2 free will: the theological problems; chapter 7 human free will in the bible and in the fathers; chapter 8 the middle ages and later scholasticism; chapter 9 during and after the reformation; chapter 10 criticism of positions
chapter 11 the divine knowledge and my theorypart 3: the philosophical controversy: determinism versus free will; chapter 12 determinism; chapter 13 compatibilism and implications of determimism; chapter 14 for determinism; chapter 15 settling the argument and replies to these arguments; chapter 16 against determinism; chapter 17 determinism and criminal justice; part 4 making decisions; chapter 18 purely rational decisions; chapter 19 decisions which involve emotions; chapter 20 doing God's will; chapter 21 making the decision and afterwards; conclusion; bibliography; index of names index of subjects |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455334103321 |
Cowburn John
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Milwaukee, Wis., : Marquette University Press, c2008 | ||
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