Daimons, Fate, and the Quality of Souls: Choice and Self-Examination in Sophocles, Plato and Arendt

• In Event: Affects and Self-reflection

Brief Overview

The Greeks balanced the roles of fate and free-will, which later periods juxtaposed. This paper explores the interplay of free-will and fate comparing the behavioral guides in the ancient works of Sophocles and Plato with that of Hannah Arendt.

Author

• Andrea Kay Kent, West Virginia University Institute of Technology