A free will
Subtitle: origins of the notion in ancient thought
By: edited by A.A. Long ; with a foreword by David Sedley
Contributors: Long, A. A.
Series: Sather classical lectures -- v. 68
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780520268487
Notes: "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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Aristotle on choice without a will; title: The emergence of a notion of will in Stoicism; title: Later Platonist and Peripatetic contributions; title: The emergence of a notion of a free will in Stoicism; title: Platonist and Peripatetic criticisms and responses; title: An early Christian view on a free will : Origen; title: Reactions to the Stoic notion of a free will : Plotinus; title: Augustine : a radically new notion of a free will?; title: Conclusion