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]