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Double Motivation, Gods and Psychic Organs in the Iliad
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of Linguistics and Philology.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7642-3980
2025 (English)In: American Journal of Philology, ISSN 0002-9475, E-ISSN 1086-3168, Vol. 146, no 2, p. 243-271Article in journal (Refereed) Accepted
Abstract [en]

There are two especially important problems surrounding agential causation in the Iliad: first, whether divine causation or motivation behind human actions and thoughts undermines human agency, and, second, whether the causation or motivation of psychic organs undermines the agency of the unified self. In this essay, I first defend an interpretation according to which a solution commonly applied to the first problem—“double determination”—can be seen as relevant also for the second one. Second, I sketch a proposal for how psychological indeterminacy can be integrated into a constructive account of Iliadic ethics. On this proposal, a certain flexibility vis-à-vis agency can be considered an ethically constructive attitude.

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Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025. Vol. 146, no 2, p. 243-271
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-557539OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-557539DiVA, id: diva2:1962000
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Wenner-Gren FoundationsAvailable from: 2025-05-28 Created: 2025-05-28 Last updated: 2025-06-02

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