Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Chrysippus, Epicurus and Nuel D. Belnap
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 1. Nature of Free Will
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Epicurus was the first to see the free will problem, and he was a libertarian [Epicurus, by Long/Sedley]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 2. Sources of Free Will
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Epicurus showed that the swerve can give free motion in the atoms [Epicurus, by Diogenes of Oen.]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 4. For Free Will
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There is no necessity to live with necessity [Epicurus]
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Chrysippus allows evil to say it is fated, or even that it is rational and natural [Plutarch on Chrysippus]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will
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A swerve in the atoms would be unnatural, like scales settling differently for no reason [Chrysippus, by Plutarch]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism
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Chrysippus is wrong to believe in non-occurring future possibilities if he is a fatalist [Plutarch on Chrysippus]
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If everything is by necessity, then even denials of necessity are by necessity [Epicurus]
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Everything is fated, either by continuous causes or by a supreme rational principle [Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / b. Fate
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Fate is an eternal and fixed chain of causal events [Chrysippus]
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Sooner follow mythology, than accept the 'fate' of natural philosophers [Epicurus]
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The Lazy Argument responds to fate with 'why bother?', but the bothering is also fated [Chrysippus, by Cicero]
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When we say events are fated by antecedent causes, do we mean principal or auxiliary causes? [Chrysippus]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 7. Compatibilism
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We should not refer things to irresponsible necessity, but either to fortune or to our own will [Epicurus]
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Destiny is only a predisposing cause, not a sufficient cause [Chrysippus, by Plutarch]
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