NOUN
- ancient Greek philosopher who succeeded Zeno of Citium as the leader of the Stoic school (300-232 BC)
How To Use Cleanthes In A Sentence
- Cleanthes, who was a Stoic philosopher and also known as the water-carrier, worked by night so that he could do philosophy by day.
- I accept, as Cleanthes did, that the argument does not by itself lead to that conclusion.
- But this does not affect the argument from design which, as Cleanthes admits, does not purport to show that the designer of the universe does have these characteristics.
- After his death (264), Cleanthes of Assium (b. 331; d. 232) became head of the school; Chrysippus of Soli (b. 280), succeeded and was scholarch until 204. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
- What is the force or validity of Cleanthes claim that without anthropomorphism, the worship of deity is atheism?
- In the third century B.C. Cleanthes, for example, argued that foreordination by Providence does not imply that an action not performed is not possible. FREE WILL AND DETERMINISM
