Chrysippus on fate, effective exhortation, and desert

• Autor(a) principal: Ferreira, Paulo Fernando Tadeu
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da USP
• Texto Completo: http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8133/tde-19052017-133244/
• topic: Chrysippus; Crisipo; Destino; Exhortation; Exortações; Fate; Punições; Punishment

Chrysippus faces two different objections as to whether Fate can acommodate praise, blame, honor or punishment: one, to the effect that if everything takes place by Fate, then praise and blame do not make a difference in the course of events, and therefore cannot effectively exhort one to virtue or dissuade one from vice; the other, to the effect that if everything takes place by Fate, then one is not the ultimate origin of one\'s actions, and therefore praise, blame, honor, or punishment for one\'s actions are not deserved. The first (preseved in Diogenianus\' testimony apud Eusebius\' Praeparatio Evangelica VI 8) is distinct from the Idle Argument in Origen (Contra Celsum II 20) and Cicero (De Fato 28-30) in that it pertains to the issue of moral responsibility, and derives instead from the digression in Book XXV of Epicurus\' treatise On Nature. The second (preserved in Cicero\'s De Fato 39-45 and Gellius\' Noctes Atticae VII 2) is not related to the issue of alternate possibilities, which belongs rather in a later appraisal of the original discussion, with which it is conflated in Cicero\'s testimony. Chrysippus\' reply to the latter, in that it is capable of establishing, beyond mere absence from external compulsion, that the perfect causes of our impulses are our assents and that our assents do not take place all by themselves, is capable of meeting conditions for desert of praise, blame, honor, or punishment qua therapeutic devices aimed at extirpating our passions, which is the sole notion of praise, blame, honor or punishment to have a claim on desert in the extant fragments of Chrysippus.