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BL
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1043603
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b797973
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| Main Entry
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O'Keefe, Tim,1968-
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| Title & Author
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Epicurus on freedom /\ Tim O'Keefe.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge, UK ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 2005.
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1 online resource (x, 175 pages)
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| ISBN
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0511130597
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: 0511482574
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: 6610434891
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: 9780511130595
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: 9780511482571
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: 9786610434893
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0511129068
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052184696X
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1280434899
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9780511129063
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9780521846967
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9781280434891
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-173) and index.
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| Contents
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; chapter 1 What sort of an incompatibilist is Epicurus?; chapter 2 Lucretius on the swerve and voluntas; chapter 3 Aristotle and Epicurus on the origins of character and action; chapter 4 Epicurus' reductionist response to Democritean fatalism; chapter 5 The swerve and collisions; chapter 6 The swerve and fate; Epilogue: Epicurus and the invention of libertarian free will; Appendix: Some texts; References; Index.
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| Abstract
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Tim O'Keefe reconstructs Epicurus' theory of freedom, arguing that the sort of freedom which Epicurus wanted to preserve is significantly different from the 'free will' which philosophers debate today, and that in its emphasis on rational action it has much closer affinities with Aristotle's thought than with current preoccupations.
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Epicurus-- Ethics.
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Epicurus.
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Free will and determinism.
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Philosophy, Ancient.
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Ethics.
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Free will and determinism.
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PHILOSOPHY-- Free Will Determinism.
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Philosophy, Ancient.
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| Dewey Classification
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123/.5092
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B573.O34 2005eb
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