[MD] Free Will

[Matt Kundert]

Hey Ron,

Ron said:
Epictetus contributes much to this discussion. I think ethical 
development is the assertion of control in our lives. When we assert 
control we assert  ourselves as reasoning human beings, when we 
look close we must take care that we must concern ourselves with 
that which can control, that ethical acts emerge from making such 
distinctions.

Matt:
You might like Martha Nussbaum's book, The Fragility of Goodness.  
Taking off from a standpoint about ethics inaugurated by Williams in 
"Moral Luck," Nussbaum gives a reading of Greek ethical thought that 
links Greek tragedy to Plato and Aristotle.  It's an interesting 
conceptualization of an alternative to Kantian ethics, with close 
readings of Platonic dialogues (including the Phaedrus and a discussion 
of madness) and important Aristotelian concepts one will need after 
you flush Christianized Kantianism.

Matt