14062 | Sooner follow mythology, than accept the 'fate' of natural philosophers [Epicurus] |
20836 | The Lazy Argument responds to fate with 'why bother?', but the bothering is also fated [Chrysippus, by Cicero] |
20837 | Fate is an eternal and fixed chain of causal events [Chrysippus] |
21679 | When we say events are fated by antecedent causes, do we mean principal or auxiliary causes? [Chrysippus] |
23315 | The nearest to ancient determinism is Stoic fate, but that is controlled by a sympathetic God [Stoic school, by Frede,M] |
21674 | Even Apollo can only foretell the future when it is naturally necessary [Carneades, by Cicero] |
23347 | If I know I am fated to be ill, I should want to be ill [Epictetus] |
13162 | Sloth's Syllogism: either it can't happen, or it is inevitable without my effort [Leibniz] |
9253 | The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it [Camus] |