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Fate, Providence and Free Will

Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Fate, Providence, and Free Will: Why Bother? -- Chapter 2. Divine and Human Will in Imperial Stoicism -- Chapter 3. Epictetus on What Is in Our Power: Modal versus Epistemic Conceptions -- Chapter 4. Providence and Cosmology in...

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Main Author: Brouwer, René (Author)
Document Type: Online Resource Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : BRILL , 2020
Series:Ancient Philosophy and Religion Ser
Online Access:http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=6359643
E-Book Packages:ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection
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Summary:Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Fate, Providence, and Free Will: Why Bother? -- Chapter 2. Divine and Human Will in Imperial Stoicism -- Chapter 3. Epictetus on What Is in Our Power: Modal versus Epistemic Conceptions -- Chapter 4. Providence and Cosmology in Philo of Alexandria -- Chapter 5. Providence and Responsibility in Philo of Alexandria. An Analysis of Genesis 2.9 -- Chapter 6. Stoic Freedom in Paul's Letter to the Romans 6.1-8.30 and Epictetus, Dissertation 4.1: from Being under an Obligation to Wanting -- Chapter 7. Middle Platonists on Fate and Providence. God, Creation, and the Governance of the World -- Chapter 8. Determinism and Deliberation in Alexander of Aphrodisias -- Chapter 9. Alexander of Aphrodisias on Fate as a Problem in Epistemology and Moral Psychology -- Chapter 10. Free Will According to the Gnostics -- Chapter 11. Providence, Fate and Freedom of the Hermetic Sage -- Chapter 12. Early Christian Philosophers on Free Will -- Chapter 13. Divine Causality. Demiurge and Providence in Plotinus -- Chapter 14. Lithoi Pheromenoi. Fate, Soul and Self-Determination in Enneads 3.1 -- Chapter 15. ``Both Sun and Night Are Servants for Mortals''? Providence in Celsus' True Account -- Chapter 16. Providence, Free Will and Predestination in Origen -- Index of Passages -- General Ιndex.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (343 pages)
ISBN:9789004436381