Wege Zur Freiheit: Menschliche Selbstbestimmung Von Homer Bis Origenes

Alfons Furst 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.