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Single Idea 3048

[from 'fragments/reports' by Chrysippus, in 28. God / A. Divine Nature / 3. Divine Perfections ]

Full Idea

Stoics say that God is an animal immortal, rational, perfect, and intellectual in his happiness, unsusceptible of any kind of evil, having a foreknowledge of the world; however, he is not the figure of a man, and is the creator of the universe.

Gist of Idea

Stoics say that God the creator is the perfection of all animals

Source

report of Chrysippus (fragments/reports [c.240 BCE]) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 07.1.72

Book Reference

Diogenes Laertius: 'Diogenes Laertius', ed/tr. Yonge,C.D. [Henry G. Bohn 1853], p.312