Cleanthes
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- proper noun
- Cleanthes was a significant figure in ancient philosophy, known for his leadership in the Cleanthes school.
Examples
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This other, this, this, this guy Cleanthes who's going to become the second, what we call Skolark, the, the ruler of, of the school.
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Then Cleanthes has a really brilliant student who's often called the second Zeno, the second founder of Stoicism, and that is Crisipus.
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And if you look at the little we know about the views of, say, Cleanthes and Chrysippus on the Master Argument, they certainly had it within their disposal to give responses to the consequence argument consistent with compatibilist accounts of the "ability to do otherwise."
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In one of many late and often favorable appeals to Seneca (see the indexes in Frame and Villey), he quotes him as saying that "Nature supplies what it demands" and goes on to praise Cleanthes for living by his hands and for boasting that he could "feed still another Cleanthes" (772).
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In his writings, Cleanthes often discussed the relationship between human reason and divine will.
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Many scholars consider Cleanthes's hymn to Zeus as one of the earliest expressions of Stoic thought.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cleanthes is an old Greek name made from kleos and anthos, where kleos means 'glory' and anthos means 'flower'. So the name can be pictured as a 'glorious flower', which is a simple way to remember this famous Stoic philosopher who is still remembered today.