... one's life are a product of fate and it is simply up to the individual to go along with it willingly or be dragged along anyway, like the dog and cart metaphor. Chrysippus's determinism is based more in the breakdown of causes and does not adhere so strictly to Zeno's view of fate. Chrysippus rejects the idea of necessity of fate, while ... is that fate, or any external cause is still a cause of our actions, but they are not the primary cause of our actions. To help explain this, he gives the metaphor of the rolling cylinder. Imagine a person that pushes a round cylinder down a hill. Th...

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