# On Fate

- Identifiant : `cicero.de_fato`
- Auteur : Cicero
- URL canonique : https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/de-fato/
- Empreinte : `dfc6a28342dc858cacce4bf5a1fbab1536b73923f67229d900ab3d23ac0bbe3c`

## What you will learn

Separate determinism, fatalism, and foreknowledge, understand the problem of future contingents, and relate causation to moral responsibility.

## Summary

The text discusses Hellenistic responses to determinism, especially the Stoic attempt to reconcile universal fate with the agent’s own assent. Future propositions test whether logical truth and causal necessity should be identified.

Incomplete survival makes reconstruction cautious. Cicero defends room for action without delivering a complete system; the work lies in distinctions among cause, necessity, prediction, and accountability.