Freedom of will in Plato and Aristotle: free choice and moral responsibility
Abstract
The topic of my research is defined by the conditional "application" of the problem of free will in the ancient classical philosophy in order to place the beginning of the debate in the platonic and the Aristotelian thought. An important condition for this project is the awareness that the concept of free will is absent from ancient philosophy. Based on the concepts of free choice and moral responsibility I try to detect an individual moral freedom, which, although it has not been thematized by philosophers as such, may, in my opinion, occur even in an early form. For this purpose, I am examining particular and mainly ethical issues, such as moral and physical determinism, teleology, the relationship between knowledge and action, the tripartition of the soul, virtue, vice and incontinence. I assert that the peculiar way in which freedom appears -more or less- in Plato and Aristotle belongs to the broad debate about free will, although the question of freedom of will here had to be tran ...
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