Chrysippus · Philosophy

Fate and the Cylinder

How everything can be fated and yet our actions still our own.

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Chrysippus held that everything happens by fate - an unbreakable chain of causes - yet defended human responsibility with the cylinder analogy: fate supplies the external push, but how a thing then behaves depends on its own nature. Our assent flows from our character, so our actions are fated and genuinely ours. This…

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