Dylan Burns on the Birth of Free Will in Late Antiquity

Oddcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)

Is ‘free will’ a given, a constant of the human condition? It might seem that way, but as Dylan Burns argues in this interview, the idea that humans possess a faculty of un-coerced decision-making actually arises at a specific time – late antiquity – and in a specific context – early Christian philosophy.