Act I, scene 2.
Edmund's speech against "the excellent foppery of the world" that the stars determine our natures, our characters, our dispositions, our vices, and our flaws is no defense of libertarianism.
"Fit! I should have been that I am had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing," he says.
That is more Schopenhauer than Sartre.
Reading King Lear.
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