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Stoics, Epicureans, and Aristotelians
In Timothy O'Connor & Constantine Sandis (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Action. Oxford, UK: Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 447–458 (2010)
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This chapter contains sections titled: The Hellenistic Debates Action, Reason, and Assent Alexander: Aristotle as an Indeterminist Epicurus: Determinism Excludes Freedom Epicurus: Argument against Determinism Stoics: Fate without Fatalism Stoic Causes Assent as Principal Cause A Stoic Defense of Compatibilism References: primary sources.Author's Profile
Stoics, Epicureans, and Aristotelians nature of rational action, human freedom, and their relation to causal determination philosophers, examining features of human action and connexion ‐ between action and responsibility action, reason, and assent Aristotle discusses action (praxis), taking it to be peculiar to rational agents Aristotle as an indeterminist ‐ three Aristotelian conditions to an indeterminist conclusion Alexander, observing that Aristotle ‐ allows voluntary action to non‐rational animals Epicurus, argument against determinism Stoics ‐ fate without fatalism Stoics distinguishing cause of event ‐ from antecedent conditions necessary for the cause
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