Liber Arbiter

An investigation into the ancient notion of free will

Saturday, February 27, 2010

FREE WILL

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by those who coined the term This entry introduces the central concept explored throughout the blog. For orientation, see the “Start Here” ...
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Monday, August 11, 2008

Anicius Manlinus Severinus Boethius (475 - 526)

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For Boethius, Neoplatonist universals are only objects of rational minds. A rational nature possesses free will as its acts of volition cann...
Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Proclus Lycaeus (412 - 485)

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Proclus holds the One (Neoplatonist unifying divine principle beyond being and thought) as the origin of the entire existence. The One foste...
Saturday, August 2, 2008

Aurelius Augustinus (354-430)

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For Augustinus, God is the immutable origin of the rationally hierarchical universe, in which there is a fundamental contrast between the in...

Plotinus (204 – 270)

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Founder of Neoplatonism, Plotinus states that the core of all existence is the indefinable One, whose Intellect makes the primal principle o...
Friday, July 25, 2008

Epictetus (55 – 135)

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Man is free to manage his existence by accepting what is divinely predetermined and making appropriate choices when it comes to his own proc...

Seneca (4 BC – AD 65)

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"A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty," this theoretician of free will points out. Seneca insists that natural ...
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