Tim O'Keefe, O'Keefe Tim

Epicurus on Freedom

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Tim O'Keefe reconstructs the philosopher Epicurus' theory of freedom.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 282g
• ISBN-13: 9780521114912
• ISBN-10: 0521114918
• Artikelnr.: 26151754

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.