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meetings of 18 and 25 November

Freedom in philosophy

In the first meeting we discussed how the concept will emerge in the discussion of St. Augustine, then move on to consideration of future contingencies in Severinus Boethius and ethics based on the intention to Abelard.
We then switched to reflect the vision tommasiana free will and its difficult synthesis between voluntarism and intellectualism to reach the radical voluntarism that emerges in minimalism Occam.
after the second meeting shows praise of human freedom in Pico della Mirandola and astrological determinism of modern times we have gone Pomponazzi , The voluntarism of Descartes and the various forms of determinism that arise after the scientific revolution like those of Spinoza and Hobbes, which have a large following even the French Enlightenment.
We concluded by outlining the Kantian solution that while not denying determinism "phenomenal," says the need to postulate the existence in practical matters of free will.

Nicholas Bonetti