Fate, Freedom, and Happiness: Clement and Alexander on the Dignity of Human Responsibility

Fate, Freedom, and Happiness: Clement and Alexander on the Dignity of Human Responsibility - Gorgias Studies in Early Christianity and Patristics

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9781463239282
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 233.7
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 334
Weight: 720g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 33mm