Fate and Human Agency in the Ancient World

This six-week course offers an introduction to competing ideas of human agency, and its relationship with fate, in the ancient world. How much control do humans have over their lives and environments? How should we guide our lives? If we do have a fate, how should this influence our decisions? This course will examine how thinkers in early China, Greece, and beyond engaged with each of these big questions, while we consider our own answers to them. Full schedule coming soon.

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Your Instructor

Sara Barrera Rubio

PhD in East Asian Studies
Princeton University

Sara is a PhD Candidate at Princeton University. Her primary research field is early Chinese intellectual history, and the secondary is ancient Greek philosophy, and comparative studies.

History of IdeasAncient PhilosophyReception HistoryComparative Studies

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$168

What you'll learn

Textual and intertextual analysis

Reconstruction of history of ideas

Problematizing the study of antiquity

Comparative approaches to philosophy

What You Get

Live interactive sessions

Engage in real-time discussions with expert instructors

Small discussion groups

Maximum 15 students for personalized attention

Session recordings

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