Being, Doing, Willing

Date/Time

30/04/2016 (Saturday)

2.00 - 5.00 pm

Location
The Adelaide





Jane O’Grady, London School of Philosophy will speak on:

    Being, Doing, Willing

The ancient Greeks and Romans are often said to have lacked a concept of ‘will’ in their picture of human nature. Yet for Augustine in the fourth century, throughout medieval philosophy, in Descartes and Kant, the will was the essential human faculty – ideally good and strong, and in any case free. What was, and is, the significance of ‘the will’?