Cicero's De Fato in Deleuze's Logic of Sense. Issue 1 (February 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bennett, Michael James
• Is Part Of: Deleuze studies. Volume 9:Issue 1(2015)
• Page Start: 25
• Page End: 58
• Publication Date: 2015-02
• Subjects: Philosophy, French -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; Criticism and interpretation -- Periodicals; 194
• DOI: 10.3366/dls.2015.0173
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1750-2241

Abstract

<abstract xml:lang="en"> <title> <x xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <p>The arguments of the Stoic Chrysippus recorded in Cicero's <italic>De Fato</italic> are of great importance to Deleuze's conception of events in <italic>The Logic of Sense</italic>. The purpose of this paper is to explicate these arguments, to which Deleuze's allusions are extremely terse, and to situate them in the context of Deleuze's broader project in that book. Drawing on contemporary scholarship on the Stoics, I show the extent to which Chrysippus' views on compatibilism, hypothetical inference and astrology support Deleuze's claim that the Stoics developed a theory of compatibilities and incompatibilities of events independent of corporeal states of affairs.</p> </abstract>