1. Chrysippus's Determinism
... through us, since that is what he defines is in our power. The external causes do not compel us to act, for it would be strange to suggest that the cheese compels the mouse to move through the maze. The mouse acts on its own nature of wanting the ... cheese. The fact that the cheese is there is only proximate. The mouse wants the cheese and so acts in its own nature to find the cheese when it receives the impression of the cheese. But the Stoics also believe that virtue and vice are in our power. And since ... of the what Chrysippus would say about soothsayers getting there prediction ...
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