Fate, Providence and Free Will: Philosophy and Religion in Dialogue in the Early Imperial Age

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43566-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 636 g

Reihe: Ancient Philosophy & Religion

This volume, edited by René Brouwer and Emmanuele Vimercati, deals with the debate about fate, providence and free will in the early Imperial age. This debate is rekindled in the 1st century CE during emperor Augustus’ rule and ends in the 3rd century CE with Plotinus and Origen, when the different positions in the debate were more or less fully developed. The book aims to show how in this period the notions of fate, providence and freedom were developed and debated, not only within and between the main philosophical schools, that is Stoicism, Aristotelianism, and Platonism, but also in the interaction with other, “religious” movements, here understood in the general sense of groups of people sharing beliefs in and worship of (a) superhuman controlling power(s), such as Gnosticism, Hermetism as well as Judaism and Christianity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Brouwer, René

Vimercati, Emmanuele

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religionen der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction
René Brouwer and Emmanuele Vimercati

1 Fate, Providence, and Free Will: Why Bother?
John Rist

2 Divine and Human Will in Imperial Stoicism
René Brouwer

3 Epictetus on What Is in Our Power: Modal versus Epistemic Conceptions
Ricardo Salles

4 Providence and Cosmology in Philo of Alexandria
Ludovica De Luca

5 Providence and Responsibility in Philo of Alexandria. An Analysis of Genesis 2.9
Roberto Radice

6 Stoic Freedom in Paul’s Letter to the Romans 6.1–8.30 and Epictetus, Dissertation 4.1: from Being under an Obligation to Wanting
Troels Engberg-Pedersen

7 Middle Platonists on Fate and Providence. God, Creation, and the Governance of the World
Emmanuele Vimercati

8 Determinism and Deliberation in Alexander of Aphrodisias
Carlo Natali

9 Alexander of Aphrodisias on Fate as a Problem in Epistemology and Moral Psychology
Péter Lautner

10 Free Will According to the Gnostics
Aldo Magris

11 Providence, Fate and Freedom of the Hermetic Sage
Claudio Moreschini

12 Early Christian Philosophers on Free Will
George Karamanolis

13 Divine Causality. Demiurge and Providence in Plotinus
Enrico Peroli

14 Lithoi Pheromenoi. Fate, Soul and Self-Determination in Enneads 3.1
Maria Luisa Gatti

15 “Both Sun and Night Are Servants for Mortals”? Providence in Celsus’ True Account
Pia De Simone

16 Providence, Free Will and Predestination in Origen
Mark Edwards

Index of Passages

General Index

Über Autor(innen)

René Brouwer, Ph.D. (2000), University of Cambridge, teaches philosophy and law at the University of Utrecht. He has published in ancient philosophy as well as in the philosophy and history of law, including The Stoic Sage (CUP, 2014) and Law and Philosophy in Late Republican Rome (CUP, forthcoming).

Emmanuele Vimercati, Ph.D. (2004), University of Genoa, is Professor of History of Ancient Philosophy at the Pontifical Lateran University (Rome). He has published monographs, translations, and articles on Stoicism and Platonism, as well as on the relation between Greek philosophy and early Christianity.