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Ausgabe:

Mai/2022

Spalte:

482–484

Kategorie:

Philosophie, Religionsphilosophie

Autor/Hrsg.:

Brouwer, René, and Emmanuele Vimercati [Eds.]

Titel/Untertitel:

Fate, Providence and Free Will: Philosophy and Religion in Dialogue in the Early Imperial Age.

Verlag:

Leiden u. a.: Brill 2020. VIII, 335 S. = Ancient Philosophy and Religion, 4. Geb. EUR 134,00. ISBN 9789004435667.

Rezensent:

Dylan M. Burns

This volume publishes revisions of papers originally given at two joint conferences in Italy in 2017, at Pontifical Lateran University (Rome) and the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, organized by Emmanuele Vimercati and Maria Luisa Gatti (2). In their introduction, the editors – Vimercarti and René Brouwer – ably survey both the terminology and some key sources regarding fate, providence, and free will in Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, and early Imperial Greek thought (3–8). They note that discussion of these issues changed in a number of important ways during the Imperial Period (8): one was the entry of Platonists and Aristotelians into a discussion where the Stoa had been dominant for centuries. The other was that religious writers, such as Jews, Christians, Hermetists, ...


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