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Abstract

This paper is devoted to the Chrysippean revision of the stoic theory of fate. In order to do so, I will examine in the first place an objection directed toward this theory known as the Lazy Argument. According to this objection, if we claim that fate's mechanism is always fatalistic, we would have to conclude that all our desires and efforts are meaningless. It will be suggested that Chrysippus developed his distinction between fated and cofated events in order to limit the fatalistic mechanism of fate to one group of events, and hence avoid this objection. Secondly, it will be shown how this proposal leads him to conceive a new theory of fate focused on the causal nexus of everything, which allows him to defend a conception of the world as a unity both in a synchronic and in a diachronic level.

Details

Title
Revisión de Crisipo de la teoría estoica del destino*/Review of Chrysippus' stoic theory or fate
Author
Espíndola, Laura Liliana Gómez
Pages
129-149
Publication year
2013
Publication date
Dec 2013
Publisher
Universidad de Antioquía
ISSN
01213628
e-ISSN
2256358X
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Spanish
ProQuest document ID
1629579485
Copyright
Copyright Universidad de Antioquia Dec 2013