Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy

U.S.A.: Clarendon Press/Oxford. New. 1999. Hardcover. 0198237944 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY - AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY, WHY WAIT? -- 456 pages -- REVIEWS: ""This is an awe-inspiring work....It is extraordinarily ambitious. It aims to recover and understand, so far as the sources allow, the entire early Stoic theory of fate, causal determinism, and responsibility. It achieves this ambition while at the same time showing how immensely more difficult the task is than anyone had appreciated before....It will most certainly be the first work that everybody interested has to get to grips with. They will have to start here both xecause the book is a model of scholarly method and because it is an outstanding example of lucid philosophical thinking in an area where clear thought is extremely difficult." --Miles Burnyeat, All Souls College, Oxford - "This is an awe-inspiring work....It is extraordinarily ambitious. It aims to recover and understand, so far as the sources allow, the entire early Stoic theory of fate, causal determinism, and responsibility. It achieves this ambition while at the same time showing how immensely more difficult the task is than anyone had appreciated before....It will most certainly be the first work that everybody interested has to get to grips with. They will have to start here both because the book is a model of scholarly method and because it is an outstanding example of lucid philosophical thinking in an area where clear thought is extremely difficult." --Miles Burnyeat, All Souls College, Oxford - "Bobzien's erudite and philosophically sophisticated work marks both the huge success of contemporary studies of the ancient Stoics and a masterly personal achievement by its author. It is now without doubt the pasic book on a substantial area of Stoic thought from its beginnings town to the 3rd century A. D....Despite the extreme difficulty, both philological and philosophical, of much of the material, it is written clearly in jargon-free English....This is a still largely undtrodden area, but we owe it to Bobzien, as we owe very much else, that we can now see much more clearly than before where we should be looking for knowledge." --International Philosophical Quarterly --- DESCRIPTION: "Bobzien presents the definitive study of one of the most interesting intellectual legacies of the ancient Greeks: the Stoic theory of causal determinism. She explains what it was, how the Stoics justified it, and how it relates to their views on possibility, action, freedom, moral responsibility, and many other topics. She demonstrates the considerable philosophical richness and power that these ideas retain today." --- AUTHOR: Susanne Bobzien, Professor of Philosophy, Yale University. -- with a bonus offer-- .