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The Free Choice and Human Action in the Necessary Cosmos of Stoics

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2012

Abstract

The chapter deals with the problem of free choice of the human individual in the philosophy of stoics. Stoics created the complex system of nature in their philosophy, which is determined of the necessity of all actions.

This necessity in the nature was called destiny. Other philosophies criticized this doctrine of stoics, because there is not the possibility of choice between good and bad actions in the necessary determination of destiny.

There is not the possibility to require the moral responsibility for bad actions too. However the stoic’s physics contains the theory of causes, which make the choice of human individual possible.

It is possible to derive the type of freedom from this theory of causes and this type of freedom makes the decision of human possible.