[MD] Free Will (footnotes to Plato)

[Steven Peterson]

His all,

Where did this question of free will versus determinism originate in
the history of philosophy? I've been thinking of free will as a
Christian theology "extra-added ingredient" to each human animal that
is used to explain the problem of evil (unsatisfactorily). Theologians
needed this term to answer those who thought deeply enough to ask,
yeah, okay, evil came from Satan, but where did Satan come from? If if
all philosophy is footnotes to Plato, perhaps the issue is older than
Christian theology.

Best,
Steve