Dylan Burns on the Birth of Free Will in Late Antiquity

EPISODE · Nov 10, 2021 · 1H 6M

Dylan Burns on the Birth of Free Will in Late Antiquity

from Oddcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP) · host Earl Fontainelle

Is ‘free will’ a given, a constant of the human condition? It might seem that way, but as Dylan Burns argues in this interview, the idea that humans possess a faculty of un-coerced decision-making actually arises at a specific time – late antiquity – and in a specific context – early Christian philosophy.

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