A Free Will by Michael Frede
Where does the notion of free will come from? How and when did it develop, and what did that development involve? In Michael Frede's radically new account of the history of this idea, the notion of a free will emerged from powerful assumptions about the relation between divine providence, correctness of individual choice, and self-enslavement due to incorrect choice. Anchoring his discussion in Stoicism, Frede begins with Aristotle - who, he argues, had no notion of a free will - and ends with Augustine. Frede shows that Augustine, far from originating the idea (as is often claimed), derived most of his thinking about it from the Stoicism developed by Epictetus.-
Laughter in Ancient Rome
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The Greeks and the Irrational
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Shame and Necessity, Second Edition
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Sallust
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Development of the Attic Black-Figure, Revised edition
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Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual
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The Revolutions of Wisdom
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The Greeks and the Rational
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An Archaeology of Greece
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The Art of Living
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Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East
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Change and Decline
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Scenes from Greek Drama
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Reimagining Greek Tragedy on the American Stage
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Representative Government in Greek and Roman History
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From Homer to Menander
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The Religion of Greece in Prehistoric Times
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Homer the Preclassic
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Dionysius and The History of Archaic Rome
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Fiction as History
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A Greek State in Formation
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The Mask of Socrates
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Platonism
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Poetic, Scientific and Other Forms of Discourse
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Lysias and the Corpus Lysiacum
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The Hidden Author
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Who Were the Greeks?
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Epochs of Greek and Roman Biography
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Roman Satire
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Ovid
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The Eclogues of Vergil
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The Poetry of Homer
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Folk Tale, Fiction and Saga in the Homeric Epics
"In this posthumously published volume, comprising lectures delivered in Berkeley in fall 1997, Frede reflects on the concept of a free will in ancient thought" "Summing Up: Highly recommended." -- J Bussanich Choice "...One can only feel awe before the breadth of [Frede's] learning and the depth of his insight." -- Charles Kahn Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie
Michael Frede, who died in 2007, held positions successively in the departments of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, Princeton University, and Oxford University, where he held the Chair of the History of Philosophy. In 1997-1998, he was Sather Professor of Classical Literature at UC Berkeley, where he delivered the lectures that make up this volume. A. A. Long is Professor of Classics, Irving Stone Professor of Literature, and Affiliated Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life and From Epicurus to Epictetus: Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy. David Sedley is Lawrence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and the author of Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity (UC Press).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780520268487 |
| ISBN 10 | 0520268482 |
| Title | A Free Will |
| Author | Michael Frede |
| Series | Sather Classical Lectures |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Year published | 2011-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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