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Alfons Fürst

Wege zur Freiheit

Menschliche Selbstbestimmung von Homer bis Origenes
[Paths to Freedom. Self-Agency from Homer to Origen.]
2022. XIV, 336 pages.
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DOI 10.1628/978-3-16-161657-0
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Summary
Alfons Fürst traces the paths to freedom etched out in the pagan, Jewish and Christian thinking of antiquity. The early Christians drew on ancient concepts of self-agency as developed especially by the Stoics, and propagated heavily the freedom of choice. The study demonstrates how Origen of Alexandria forged the first metaphysics of freedom in which freedom is conceived of as a fundamental principle of being.

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