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[catalogued under 16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism]

Full Idea

Chrysippus says (in his 'On Fate') that everything happens by fate. Fate is a continuous string of causes of things which exist or a rational principle according to which the cosmos is managed.

Gist of Idea

Everything is fated, either by continuous causes or by a supreme rational principle

Source

report of Chrysippus (fragments/reports [c.240 BCE]) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 07.148

Book Reference

'The Stoics Reader', ed/tr. Inwood,B/Gerson,L.P. [Hackett 2008], p.55