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Stoic Fate: The Dog and the Cart (Zeno and Chrysippus)

Boris and Friends: Philosophy Bites, episode 36 · 1 min · Stupid Potato Studios

Free philosophy cartoon: Stoic fate and the dog tied to the cart. Barnaby the donkey asks whether things must happen as they will; Horace the ram gives Zeno and Chrysippus, and Boris the bear explains: we can be dragged along or walk. Words: Zeno and Chrysippus, Hippolytus, Refutation of All Heresies, translated by J. H. MacMahon

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