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Single Idea 20813

[from 'fragments/reports' by Chrysippus, in 22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature ]

Full Idea

The human being was born for the sake of contemplating and imitating the cosmos.

Gist of Idea

Human purpose is to contemplate and imitate the cosmos

Source

Chrysippus (fragments/reports [c.240 BCE]), quoted by M. Tullius Cicero - On the Nature of the Gods ('De natura deorum') 2.37

Book Reference

'The Stoics Reader', ed/tr. Inwood,B/Gerson,L.P. [Hackett 2008], p.66


A Reaction

[This seems to be an idea of Chrysippus] Remind me how to imitate the cosmos. Presumably this is living according to nature, but that becomes more obscure when express like this.