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Single Idea 7672

[from 'fragments/reports' by Stoic school, in 16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will ]

Full Idea

The free-will problem was invented by the Stoics.

Gist of Idea

The free will problem was invented by the Stoics

Source

report of Stoic school (fragments/reports [c.200 BCE]) by Isaiah Berlin - The Roots of Romanticism Ch.4

Book Reference

Berlin,Isaiah: 'The Roots of Romanticism' [Pimlico 2000], p.73


A Reaction

Compare Ideas 6018 and 7814. There is no sign of the problem in Book 3 of Aristotle's Ethics. This is crucial, since I consider the problem to be totally bogus.

Related Ideas

Idea 6018 Epicurus was the first to see the free will problem, and he was a libertarian [Epicurus, by Long/Sedley]

Idea 7814 It was Epicurus who made the question of the will's freedom central to ethics [Epicurus, by Grayling]