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Ideas of Michael Frede, by Text
[German, 1940 - 2007, Professor at Princeton, and then at Oxford.]
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1978
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Individuals in Aristotle
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p.66
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16157
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Insurance on the original ship would hardly be paid out if the plank version was wrecked!
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1983
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Title, Unity, Authenticity of the 'Categories'
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I
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p.11
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Earlier views of Aristotle were dominated by 'Categories'
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1996
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Intro to 'Rationality in Greek Thought'
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p.5
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p.5
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23249
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The early philosophers thought that reason has its own needs and desires
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Intro
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p.11
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23313
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The Gnostic demiurge (creator) is deluded, and doesn't care about us
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04
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p.49
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In the third century Stoicism died out, replaced by Platonism, with Aristotelian ethics
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07
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p.103
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23333
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The idea of free will achieved universal acceptance because of Christianity
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08
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p.126
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23334
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For Christians man has free will by creation in God's image (as in Genesis)
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08
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p.143
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23335
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In late antiquity nearly all philosophers were monotheists
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09
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p.156
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23336
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There is no will for Plato or Aristotle, because actions come directly from perception of what is good
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10
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p.176
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The Stoics needed free will, to allow human choices in a divinely providential cosmos
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