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" ..... xx TABLE OF CONTENTS PROOFS OF GOD S EXISTENCE PAGE Cleanthes s proof from the Primitive Fire . . . 217 (1) Inductive proofs . . . . . .217 Argument from man s constitution . . . .217 Stress laid on man s moral nature .... 218 Arg-ument from history or Consensus gentium 218 . . . The Teleological argument . . . . .218 Moral government of the world . . . .219 (2) Deductive proofs . . . . . .219 Truth, in propositions regarding- the future . . 219 . Argument from notion of the world as a universe . .219 Argument from God s foreknowledge .... Argument from Divination ..... 220 220 AGAINST AGNOSTICISM . God knowable . . . . ... 220 A modified agnosticism . . . . . .221 ...... THE DEITY LIMITED BY FATE Seneca and Cleanthes 222 The doctrine partially ignored 222 MYTHOLOGY AND DIVINATION " Did not discard the gods 223 Supported Divination by examples .... 223 Observations ....... II 223 THE PROBLEM OF EVIL Discrepancy between Stoic teaching and Conscience 223 . Denial of sin is merely dogmatic assertion . . . 223 Job s difficulty how solved by .... Stoics 224 Evil is good in disguise, and for the best . . . 224 Suffering disciplinary...... is 225 Seneca, De Providentid...... ....... 225 Epictetus. 226 Suffering vicarious, and is of nature of atonement . . 226 Stoic held evil and sin to be necessary on law of Relativity . 226 This an overstraining of the law .... 227
TABLE OF CONTENTS xxi THE DOCTRINE OF FATE ........ PAGE Numbing, when strictly expressed . . 228 May be so interpreted as to bring- out a great truth . . 228 Seneca 229 Cleanthes . 229 Stoic acquiescence lacks hope for future . 229 DIVINATION Probably, a philosophical acknowledgment of supernatural . 230 Distinction between kinds of Divination . . . 231 Technical or artificial divination . . . 231 Its value to be tested by... inductive procedure . .231 . Natural divination ..... 232 Personal character of agent important here 232 . . On the lines of Prophecy 232 Justification of proof of God s existence from divination 233 . PRAYER Acknowledgment of the supernatural .... 233 The purpose of Prayer . . 234 Aurelius on Prayer . . . 234 Cleanthes s Hymn to Zeus 235 CHAPTER XII PRESENT-DAY VALUE OF STOICISM I The Stoic philosophy instinct with life . . . 237 Its value as science and speculation . . . . 237 Its ethical and religious value . . . . . 238 Stoicism to be studied as an aid to . . right living 238 Stoicism has been opposed to Christian Theology , . 239 Marcus Aurelius given as our model here 239 . . . Kenan s attitude....... ..... 239 Leslie . . . Stephen . . . . 240 Why Aurelius is thus chosen 240 Characteristics of his Meditations ..... 240 Matthew Arnold s estimate 242 Aurelius not anti-supernaturalist 242 Much less is Epictetus or Seneca .... 242
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