Fate up against the will: ethical and ontological tensions in medieval Christian philosophy regarding the tragic
The presence of the fatal reverberates in the existence of the human being, and the deployment of this notion runs through all the fields of his life. The present article aims to expose the problematic link that is woven between voluntary action and the fatal, from the tragic work Oedipus Rex by Sop...
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Universidad Nacional del Nordeste. Facultad de Humanidades. Instituto de Filosofía
2025
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unne.edu.ar/index.php/ach/article/view/8780 |
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| Sumario: | The presence of the fatal reverberates in the existence of the human being, and the deployment of this notion runs through all the fields of his life. The present article aims to expose the problematic link that is woven between voluntary action and the fatal, from the tragic work Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, and Medieval Christian Philosophy, taking mainly the authors Augustine of Hippo, and Thomas Aquinas. This interweaving (symploké) between determinism and voluntary actions, brings with it problems of a philosophical nature regarding human action such as moral responsibility, the punishability of acts, the justification of punishment or the self-determination of the person himself. Which will be examined from the question: what is the point of doing good when, due to fate, one finds oneself condemned to commit that which one seeks to avoid? |
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