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Epicurus on freedom /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Epicurus on freedom // Tim O'Keefe.
Author:	O'Keefe, Tim,
Description:	1 online resource (x, 175 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Free will and determinism. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511482571
ISBN:	9780511482571 (ebook)

Epicurus on freedom /
O'Keefe, Tim,1968-

Epicurus on freedom /Tim O'Keefe. - 1 online resource (x, 175 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

What sort of an incompatibilist is Epicurus? -- Lucretius on the swerve and voluntas -- Aristotle and Epicurus on the origins of character and action -- Epicurus' reductionist response to Democritean fatalism -- The swerve and collisions -- The swerve and fate -- Epilogue : Epicurus and the invention of libertarian free will -- Appendix : some texts.

In this 2005 book, Tim O'Keefe reconstructs the theory of freedom of the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus (341–271/0 BCE). Epicurus' theory has attracted much interest, but our attempts to understand it have been hampered by reading it anachronistically as the discovery of the modern problem of free will and determinism. O'Keefe argues that the sort of freedom which Epicurus wanted to preserve is significantly different from the 'free will' which philosophers debate today, and that in its emphasis on rational action it has much closer affinities with Aristotle's thought than with current preoccupations. His original and provocative book will be of interest to a wide range of readers in Hellenistic philosophy.

ISBN: 9780511482571 (ebook)Subjects--Personal Names:

576647
Epicurus
Subjects--Topical Terms:

556121
Free will and determinism.

LC Class. No.: B573 / .O34 2005

Dewey Class. No.: 123/.5092

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