Friends, at the university gave the task to write an essay about about free will of the person (whether the person has it). It is necessary to analyze the history of philosophy, starting with ancient Greece and ending with the 20th century (postmodernism). Please help me with ideas. The essay should be analytical.
If you want to write an essay about free will I think that you can't exclude religion and great religious thinkers like Saint Augustine of Hippo, Thomas Aquinas, Anselm of Canterbury, Baruch Spinoza etc.
Whether people have free will at all is a great theological question through the centuries and is still unresolved.
Check out also works from Aristotle, Lao Tzu, Plato and others.