He argued that because God (whom he calls “Zeus” or occasionally “the gods”) is benevolent and rational, he created human beings to be rational, too, and capable of rational actions if they use their impressions of the world reflectively. In fact, our minds are small parts of Zeus’s mind, and so our mental power is part of the power that runs the universe. We are accountable for our choices because we are free to make them and are capable of so doing. We seek through our choices to act to our own advantage, but since our own interests are part of a much larger system, we are able to see that,
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