1. Chrysippus's Determinism
The Lazy Argument runs that if I become sick, and it is my fate to be healed, then I do not need to go to the doctor since it is my fate to be healed. ... 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. ...
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