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Determinism or fatalism?

On the axis: Freedom of the will · my efforts

If everything has a cause, are my efforts in vain, since the outcome would be settled either way, or do they on the contrary count, being themselves causes among others?

Philosophers' positions

Stoicism

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Stoicism asserts thoroughgoing causal (fate) while holding that our is in our power: the classic position, illustrated by Chrysippus' cylinder, which rolls from an external push but according to its own shape. The position tilts slightly toward determinism, since fate links all causes.

Cicero, On Fate · Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights, VII, 2

Anchors: the Stoics · Chrysippus