Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy
Susanne Bobzien
Abstract
This book is a comprehensive study of the Stoic theory of causal and teleological determinism. It identifies the main problems the Stoics addressed, 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, and shows that they developed a compatibilist theory with a rationalist co ... More
Keywords: causal determinism, character, Chrysippus, compatibilism, determinism, fatalism, freedom, history of philosophy, moral responsibility, Stoicism, teleological determinism, logical determinism
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2001 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199247677 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003 | DOI:10.1093/0199247676.001.0001 |
