Fate, Freedom, and Happiness : : Clement and Alexander on the Dignity of Human Responsibility / / Daniel Robinson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English
• VerfasserIn: Robinson, Daniel,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (0 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; ABBREVIATIONS --; CHAPTER ONE. INTRODUCTION --; CHAPTER TWO. THE HELLENISTIC BACKGROUND --; CHAPTER THREE. A MONISTIC THEODICY: THE BIBLICAL PLATONISM OF PHILO OF ALEXANDRIA (25 BCE - 50 CE) --; CHAPTER FOUR. A DUALISTIC THEODICY: THE MIDDLEPLATONISM OF PLUTARCH OF CHAERONEA (46-120 CE) --; CHAPTER FIVE. ALEXANDER'S PRECEDENTS --; CHAPTER SIX. ANALYSIS OF THE DE FATO --; CHAPTER SEVEN. INDETERMINIST DELIBERATION --; CHAPTER EIGHT. CLEMENT'S RHETORICAL STRATEGY --; CHAPTER NINE. CLEMENT'S PHILOSOPHICAL ARGUMENTS --; CHAPTER TEN. CONCLUSION --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463239855; 9783110610765; 9783110664232; 9783110610741; 9783110606508; 9783110661514
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463239855
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• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Daniel Robinson.

In what particular manner human beings are free moral agents and to what extent they can reasonably expect to attain a good life are two intertwined questions that rose to prominence in antiquity and have remained so to the present day. This book analyzes and compares the approaches of two significant authors from different schools at the turn of the third century CE, Alexander of Aphrodisias and Clement of Alexandria. These contemporaries utilize their respective Peripatetic and Christian commitments in their employment of the shared Greek classics toward these shared ethical questions.