Epicurus on Freedom

In this 2005 book, Tim O''Keefe reconstructs the theory of freedom of the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus (341–271/0 BCE). Epicurus'' theory has attracted much interest, but our attempts to understand it have been hampered by reading it anachronistically as the discovery of the modern problem of free will and determinism. O''Keefe argues that the sort of freedom which Epicurus wanted to preserv...