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Palazzo Massimo alle Terme. The garden frescoes from the villa belonging to Livia (wife of emperor Augustus) are a miracle,…
Capuchin Crypt: A crypt decorated with the bones of 3,000+ Capuchin friars. So metal.
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The Domus Aurea tour is terrific. Need to reserve in advance.
Here is a brief essay explaining Frede’s position. Headline: “The Ancient Greeks had no concept of free will because they…
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Just to be clear, I was giving voice to the tenor of the advice I’ve received, not endorsing it. I…
The trailer:
Among those I recognized were the philosophers Daniel Dennett, Robert Kane,and Gregg Caruso, as well as the physicist Sean Carroll and biologist Jerry Coyne. Oddly, the trailer features Dennett saying, incorrectly, that we have had the problem of free will since the Prescoratics. But our concept of free will comes much later, and dates from the Stoics, not the Presocratics, as Myles Burnyeat and Michael Frede have shown (although they have some disagreements about which Stoics).
Here is a brief essay explaining Frede’s position. Headline: “The Ancient Greeks had no concept of free will because they had no concept of will.”
https://www.armchairvertigo.org/p/the-ancient-greeks-had-no-concept
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