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Single Idea 1782

[filed under theme 29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 1. Monotheistic Religion ]

Full Idea

Stoics teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind, and Fate, and Jupiter, and by many names besides.

Gist of Idea

Stoics teach that God is a unity, variously known as Mind, or Fate, or Jupiter

Source

report of Chrysippus (fragments/reports [c.240 BCE]) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 07.Ze.68

Book Ref

Diogenes Laertius: 'Diogenes Laertius', ed/tr. Yonge,C.D. [Henry G. Bohn 1853], p.308

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The 3 ideas with the same theme [general idea that there can only be one god]:

7598	Zoroaster and the Hebrew prophets evolved different versions of monotheism [Zoroaster, by Armstrong,K]

1782	Stoics teach that God is a unity, variously known as Mind, or Fate, or Jupiter [Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius]

20668

Monotheism appeared in Egypt in 1350 BCE, when the god Aten was declared supreme [Harari]