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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.
Price: $194.00
Pages: 336
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Ancient Philosophy & Religion
Publication Date:
03 September 2020
ISBN: 9789004435667
Format: Hardcover
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.