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Single Idea 1782

[from 'fragments/reports' by Chrysippus, in 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 Reference

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