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... Argument of Chrysippus : ( 1 ) the universe shows the opera- tion of superhuman , i . e . of divine power ; ( 2 ) the universe is too beautiful to be the habitation of man alone , it implies a superhuman inhabitant . §§ 16 , 17 . Af ...
... Argument of Chrysippus : ( 1 ) the universe shows the opera- tion of superhuman , i . e . of divine power ; ( 2 ) the universe is too beautiful to be the habitation of man alone , it implies a superhuman inhabitant . §§ 16 , 17 . Af ...
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... argument for the divinity of the universe ( and therefore indirectly for the Divine Existence , since the universe exists ) . ( 1 ) What has reason is better than what has not reason , therefore the universe , as the best of things ...
... argument for the divinity of the universe ( and therefore indirectly for the Divine Existence , since the universe exists ) . ( 1 ) What has reason is better than what has not reason , therefore the universe , as the best of things ...
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... arguments , but even the quotations of the author whom he follows . We need not therefore suppose with Teuffel ( Hist . of Rom . Lit. § 173. 10 , ed . 1 ) that , because Cicero quotes from Aristotle , Zeno , Cleanthes , and Chrysippus ...
... arguments , but even the quotations of the author whom he follows . We need not therefore suppose with Teuffel ( Hist . of Rom . Lit. § 173. 10 , ed . 1 ) that , because Cicero quotes from Aristotle , Zeno , Cleanthes , and Chrysippus ...
Page xvii
... argument for the Posidonian authorship of the original which Cicero here follows , is to be found in an examination of the book itself , in the agreement between the opinions there expressed , and opinions elsewhere attributed to Posi ...
... argument for the Posidonian authorship of the original which Cicero here follows , is to be found in an examination of the book itself , in the agreement between the opinions there expressed , and opinions elsewhere attributed to Posi ...
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... argument , Cicero refers expressly to the orrery of Posidonius ( § 88 ) , as illustrating and justifying the process by which we infer the existence of a superintending mind from the observation of the movements of the heavenly bodies ...
... argument , Cicero refers expressly to the orrery of Posidonius ( § 88 ) , as illustrating and justifying the process by which we infer the existence of a superintending mind from the observation of the movements of the heavenly bodies ...
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