Free Will

Free Will provides a comprehensive introduction to the classic philosophical debate between free will and determinism. It is accessible to anyone interested in this long-standing debate and assumes no prior knowledge of philosophy. It examines the contributions to debates over free will made by sixteen of the most influential thinkers from the time of early Greece to modern times: Homer, Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, St Augustine, St Thomas Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, Hume, Kant, Schopenhauer, Freud, Sartre, Weil, Wittgenstein, Moore. Contains examples from literature, ethics and psychoanalysis.