Hannah Arendt famously called Augustine “the first philosopher of the will.” Although the bishop of Hippo is indeed the earliest philosophical writer to use the phrase “free will” (libera voluntas) with any frequency, recent scholars have emphasized his extensive debts in this area to earlier thinkers. For classicists, the debate is crystallized in a pair … Continue reading La notion de volonté dans les écrits de saint Augustin entre 388 et 404