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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Greek philosopher who succeeded Zeno as head of the Stoic school. His most famous work is a hymn to Zeus.
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- noun ancient Greek philosopher who succeeded Zeno of Citium as the leader of the Stoic school (300-232 BC)
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Another to also come in and give some advice was the peerless Pedant General-in-Ordinary, later known as Cleanthes, of The Select, who gave me some barked orders on what to do with my bleedin' template and then added: "Now retire to the mess for tea and biscuits."
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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Another to also come in and give some advice was the peerless Pedant General-in-Ordinary, later known as Cleanthes, of The Select, who gave me some barked orders on what to do with my bleedin' template and then added: "Now retire to the mess for tea and biscuits."
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The Stoics used Heraclitus 'physics as the inspiration for their own, understanding him to advocate a periodic destruction of the world by fire, followed by a regeneration of the world; Cleanthes in particular commented on Heraclitus.
Doctor, My Eyes 2009
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The essentials of Epictetus 'thought derive from the early or foundational period of Stoicism, from the third-century writings of Zeno of Citium, Cleanthes, and Chrysippus.
Epictetus Graver, Margaret 2008
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Finally, and along the same lines the previous point, even if we grant that there is one (or more) divine designer, the argument from design does not show that the designer has the perfections Cleanthes and his fellow Christians attribute to God.
Kant and Hume on Morality Denis, Lara 2008
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On the Possibles, and he also mentions reading in works by Zeno, Cleanthes, Antipater, and Archedemus.
Epictetus Graver, Margaret 2008
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Zeno's answer was "a good flow of life" (Arius Didymus, 63A) or "living in agreement," and Cleanthes clarified that with the formulation that the end was "living in agreement with nature" (Arius Didymus, 63B).
Stoicism Baltzly, Dirk 2008
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In other words, the argument from design does not prove the existence of the kind of God that Cleanthes and his real-world counterparts want it to (DCNR V).
Kant and Hume on Morality Denis, Lara 2008
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Cleanthes states that if you look at the world, you will see that it is
Kant and Hume on Morality Denis, Lara 2008
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They will tell me that even this passage proves that the system of Copernicus was already in the head of Cleanthes and others — of what import is it whether Aristarchus the Samian was of the opinion of Cleanthes, or his accuser, as the Jesuit
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