Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy

Professor of Philosophy Susanne Bobzien
Oxford University Press (UK)
9780199247677
0-19-924767-6

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.

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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.