Timothy O'Keefe: Epicurus on Freedom | Buch

Cover: 9780521846967 | Epicurus on Freedom | Timothy O'Keefe (u. a.) | Buch | Gebunden | 2011

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

Tim O'Keefe is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Georgia State University. Since 2001 he has been the Ancient Philosophy Area Editor for the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. What sort of an incompatibilist is Epicurus?; 2. Lucretius on the swerve and Voluntas; 3. Aristotle and Epicurus on the origins of character and action; 4. Epicurus' reductionalist response to democritean fatalism; 5. The swerve and collisions; 6. The swerve and fate; Epilogue: Epicurus and the invention of libertarian free will; Appendix: Some texts; References; Index.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2011
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Renaissance und Aufklärung
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9780521846967
ISBN-10:	052184696X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	O'Keefe, Timothy O'Keefe, Tim Tim, O'Keefe
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	235 x 157 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Timothy O'Keefe (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	13.12.2011
Gewicht:	0,429 kg