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16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 3. Limits of Introspection
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We think each thought causes the next, unaware of the hidden struggle beneath [Nietzsche]
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16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 4. Denial of the Self
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The 'I' is a conceptual synthesis, not the governor of our being [Nietzsche]
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The 'I' is a fiction used to make the world of becoming 'knowable' [Nietzsche]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 4. For Free Will
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Chrysippus allows evil to say it is fated, or even that it is rational and natural [Plutarch on Chrysippus]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will
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A swerve in the atoms would be unnatural, like scales settling differently for no reason [Chrysippus, by Plutarch]
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'Freedom of will' is the feeling of having a dominating force [Nietzsche]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism
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Everything is fated, either by continuous causes or by a supreme rational principle [Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius]
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Chrysippus is wrong to believe in non-occurring future possibilities if he is a fatalist [Plutarch on Chrysippus]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / b. Fate
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The Lazy Argument responds to fate with 'why bother?', but the bothering is also fated [Chrysippus, by Cicero]
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When we say events are fated by antecedent causes, do we mean principal or auxiliary causes? [Chrysippus]
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Fate is an eternal and fixed chain of causal events [Chrysippus]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 7. Compatibilism
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Destiny is only a predisposing cause, not a sufficient cause [Chrysippus, by Plutarch]
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