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Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy, Paperback by Bobzien, Susanne, ISBN 0199247676, ISBN-13 9780199247677, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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, action, freedom, moral responsibility, and many other topics. She demonstrates the considerable philosophical richness and power that these ideas retain today.

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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100199247676

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Number of Pages454 Pages

Publication NameDeterminism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2002

SubjectFree Will & Determinism, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPhilosophy

AuthorSusanne Bobzien

FormatUk-Trade Paper

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Reviews'Review from previous edition This is a work of magnificent scope and superb execution... Suzanne Bobzien brings to her huge exegetical agenda an exceptional combination of clarity, independence of mind, knowledge of the sources, skill and judgement in using them, and logical expertise. Aswell as teaching us a great deal about Stoicism, this book is an education in how to deal with ancient philosophical texts ... Suzanne Bobzien has given us a marvellous aid for understanding and appreciating the Stoic doctrine of fate.'Sarah Broadie, Mind,, 'Review from previous edition This is a work of magnificent scope and superb execution... Suzanne Bobzien brings to her huge exegetical agenda an exceptional combination of clarity, independence of mind, knowledge of the sources, skill and judgement in using them, and logical expertise. As well as teaching us a great deal about Stoicism, this book is an education in how to deal with ancient philosophical texts ... Suzanne Bobzien has given us a marvellousaid for understanding and appreciating the Stoic doctrine of fate.'Sarah Broadie, Mind,'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 that 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 starthere both because 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.'Myles Burnyeat, All Souls College, Oxford, "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, "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, This is a work of magnificent scope and superb execution ... Suzanne Bobzien brings to her huge exegetical agenda an exceptional combination of clarity, independence of mind, knowledge of the sources, skill and judgement in using them, and logical expertise. As well as teaching us a great deal about Stoicism, this book is an education in how to deal with ancient philosophical texts ... Suzanne Bobzien has given us a marvellous aid for understanding and appreciating the Stoic doctrine of fate., '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 difficultthe task is that 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 because the book is a model of scholarly method and because it is an outstanding example of lucid philosophical thinking inan area where clear thought is extremely difficult.'Myles Burnyeat, All Souls College, Oxford

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Table Of ContentIntroduction1. 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

SynopsisDeterminism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy is the first comprehensive study of one of the most important intellectual legacies of the ancient Greek world: the Stoic theory of causal determinism. The book identifies the main problems that the Stoics addressed and reconstructs the theory, and explores how they squared their determinism with their conceptions of possibility, action, freedom, and moral responsibility, and how they defended it against objections and criticism by other philosophers. It shows how the Stoics distinguished their causal determinism from ancient theories of logical determinism, fatalism, and necessitarianism. Along the way an authoritative account is given of many other related aspects of Stoic thought, including their views on the predictability of the future, the role of empirical sciences, the determination of character, and moral freedom. Bobzien's study of these central doctrines of Stoicism reveals the considerable philosphical richness and power that they retain today., 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, action, freedom, moral responsibility, and many other topics. She demonstrates the considerable philosophical richness and power that these ideas retain today., Susanne Bobzien presents the definitive study of one of the most important intellectual legacies of the ancient Greeks: the Stoic theory of causal determinism. She reconstructs the theory and discusses how the Stoics (third century BC to second century AD) justified it, and how it relates to their views on possibility, action, freedom, moral responsibility, and many other topics. She demonstrates the considerable philosophical richness and power that these ideas retain today.