Nature and Fate according to the Aristotelian Tradition: Alexander of Aphrodisia’s Exegesis in Late Antiquity Debate

Name: Nature and Fate according to the Aristotelian Tradition: Alexander of Aphrodisia’s Exegesis in Late Antiquity Debate
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RIVISTA DI FILOSOFIA NEO-SCOLASTICA

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RIVISTA DI FILOSOFIA NEO-SCOLASTICA - 2015 - 4

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Nature and Fate according to the Aristotelian Tradition: Alexander of Aphrodisia’s Exegesis in Late Antiquity Debate

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Antonella Astolfi

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Vita e Pensiero

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03-2016

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0035-6247 (stampa) | 1827-7926 (digitale)

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The identification between Nature and Fate is one of the most important issues in which Aristotle’s Physics has been involved by late antiquity philosophers. My purpose is to prove that the Aristotelian occurrences about the structure for the most part of natural ordering influenced Alexander of Aphrodisias’ conception about freedom and his antideterministic polemics. According to Alexander’s De fato, violations of the necessary arrangement of Nature exist both for physical nature and human behaviours; so, against the Stoics the individual assent is not the logical outcome of a mental habitus in a rational kosmos. Free will entails the capacity of keeping the conditioning of our fate (habits, teachings, past experiences) at a distance. This is the only way we may actually be principle and cause for ourselves because of the features of our acts predetermined not fatally but for the most part.