Fate and Fortune in Old English Literature
Hauptseminar (Winter 2015/2016)
Slides
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topic
1
Determinism and Volition in Antiquity
2
Grace and Free Will
3
Fate in Germanic Cultures
3
Outlining
6
True Happiness
7
The Problem of Evil
8
Providence vs Free Will
9
Transience
11
Grace and Free Will Redux
12
metod and wyrd
Key Concepts
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topic
1
Determinism and Volition in Antiquity
2
Grace and Free Will
3
Fate in Germanic Cultures
4
The Storms of Life
5
False Joys and the Wheel of Fortune
6
True Happiness
11
Grace and Free Will Redux
12
metod and wyrd
13
A Heros Fate
Handouts
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item
1
Debates
1
Outlining
2
Paper Topics
4
Strong Verb Cheatsheet
5
Syllabus
7
Exam Preparation
Resources
Course Reserves
Sedgefield’s Old English
Boethius
Sedgefield’s Old English
Boethius
: translation
Bosworth and Toller’s
Anglo-Saxon Dictionary
Clark Hall’s
Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary
Magic Sheet of Old English Inflection
Dictionary of Old English: A to G
Dictionary of Old English Corpus
Free Will (
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
)
Ancient Atomism (
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
)
Zeno’s Paradoxes (
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
)
Aristotle and Free Will (
Classical Wisdom Weekly
)
Entweder, oder? — Freiheit und Determinismus (WDR 5 Philosophisches Radio)