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Single Idea 5971

[from 'fragments/reports' by Chrysippus, in 16. Persons / F. Free Will / 7. Compatibilism ]

Full Idea

Chrysippus considered destiny to be not a cause sufficient of itself but only a predisposing cause.

Gist of Idea

Destiny is only a predisposing cause, not a sufficient cause

Source

report of Chrysippus (fragments/reports [c.240 BCE], fr 997) by Plutarch - 70: Stoic Self-contradictions 1056b

Book Reference

Plutarch: 'Moralia - vol 13 part 2', ed/tr. Cherniss,Harold [Harvard Loeb 1993], p.595


A Reaction

This appears to be a rejection of determinism, and is the equivalent of Epicurus' introduction of the 'swerve' in atoms. They had suddenly become bothered about the free will problem in about 305 BCE. There must be other non-destiny causes?