... perform virtues that would be contrary to their originally vicious nature. The Stoics may counter that this would not conflict because a person's nature would be whatever the nature of that person is at a particular time. Meaning, whatever a person is doing is simply the nature of that person. But doing this seems to really weaken the meaning of the nature of a person. If ... reward and punishment are as much a necessity of fate as our actions are and he would not have had to create this complex notion of co-fate responsibility. This idea goes against how we would normally define the ap...

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