1. Chrysippus's Determinism
... pp. 342, 392). This idea would better explain some of the early Stoic's metaphors, such as the dog which is tied to a cart which has no choice but to follow the cart. It is only up to the dog to follow happily or be dragged (Long & Sedley, p. 386). Chrysippus seems to be committed to this ... born to a woman. This is incomplete in his view because it cannot simply be fate that a child would be born but that the women, but that fate would determine the parents have sex to fate the birth of the child (Long & Sedley, p. 339). The distinction between simple and complex events is a weak arg...
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