Peter Bradley

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Fraenkel thinks that the Stoic model of living well depends wholly on what it believes about God. “For the Stoics, Zeus made everything, including human beings, to maximize the universe’s perfection. What sets human beings apart is that they alone share in Zeus’s rational nature and can help carry out his plan by embracing the fate he has allotted to them.”
Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind
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