Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy (1ST ed.)

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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, ... Formats: Binding/Format Priced From Paperback $98.00, £76.00 View All Formats This item is Not Returnable Additional Information BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Free Will & Determinism - Philosophy | History & Surveys | Ancient & Classical INGRAM Categories: - Theometrics | Academic - Chronological Period | Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region | Greece OCLC Number: OCLC#47356080 Dewey: 123.0938 Lexile Level: 1440 Features: Bibliography Physical Info: 2.39 cms H x 23.27 cms L x 16.0 cms W (0.64 kgs) 454 pages Carton Quantity: 20 Number of Units in Package: 1 Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. Marc Notes: Available to OhioLINK libraries.;Electronic reproduction.;Mode of access: World Wide Web.;Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2007.;s2007 enkn s. Review Quotes: "No one with a specialist's interest in Stoic conceptions of causality, fate, modality, or responsibility can afford to ignore this book, which is the most philosophically rigorous and philogically sophisticated treatmentof this body of texts to date. Bobzien's discussion abounds with acute observation and attractive solutions to longstanding textual and interpretative problems. The book is impressive in its details as in its main lines of argument. The Philosophical ReviewR^ "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 xecause 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."--Miles Burnyeat, All Souls College, Oxford in Table of Contents: Introduction1. Determinism and Fate2. Two Chrysippean Arguments for Causal Determinism3. Modality, Determinism, and Freedom4. Divination, Modality, and Universal Regularity5. Fate, Action, and Motivation: The Idle Argument6. Determinism and Moral Responsibility: Chrysippus's Compatibilism7. Freedom and that which Depends on us: Epictetus and Early Stoics8. A Later Stoic Theory of CompatibilismBibliography; Indexes