CLST 214 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Epicureanism, Stoicism, Epicurus
23 May 2015
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Stoicism: deep belief in beneficence of the gods. Gods exist and they like you: cicero. Aristotle thought that even the people who rave from the effects of sickness and are called "hypochondriacs" have within their souls some power of foresight and of prophecy. But, for my part, i am inclined to think that such a power is not to be distributed either to a diseased stomach or to a disordered brain. On the contrary, it is the healthy soul and not the sickly body that has the power of divination. The stoics, for example, establish the existence of divination by the following process of reasoning: If there are gods and (a) they love us, and. If they didn"t love us they wouldn"t tell us the future they do love us though. (b) they are not ignorant of the future, and. Rejected again because they are gods. then divination exists.
