Cicero was a man with no noble heritage, he lived from 106 BCE to 43 BCE. He was brought up receiving an education in rhetoric and philosophy. He was first taught by an Epicurean. Through this his still found the Academic sceptics most inviting. He left Italy seeking new Philosophers and traveled to Greece in 79 BCE. Cicero was then taught by a dogmatic Academic named Antiochus. Then taught by a Stoic and finally returning home he was taught by Diodotus the Stoic. Without the persistence of his father he would have not been the man he was. Cicero wrote works on fate, the nature of the Gods and more. With these he wrote Epicureanism defended or attacked, Stoicism defended or attacked. Examining On the Nature of the Gods Stoicism Defended I…show more content… If humans cannot create things in nature then they certainly cannot create the eternal natural order. It would be arrogant to assume that man is the greatest thing in all the cosmos. So what did create the eternal natural order must be greater than man. There are things greater than man therefore there must be a God. Cicero continues with this same line of though in seventeen, if one sees a large house that person does not think that it was made by a mouse or a polecat. One would know that there is a master or builder of the house even though he cannot be seen. That would seem to prove that there is a…show more content… Giving the example that flowing water is untouched by pollution but stagnate water is easily polluted. He said Zeno leaves himself exposed by not expanding his arguments and doing the opposite, condensing them. Cicero explains that this is the reason he is expanding on his argument. He proceeds to twenty-one, which is a quote from Zeno says that rational is better than not rational and the Cosmos is the greatest of all things. That would mean that the Cosmos is rational and that can be proven with wise, happy and eternal. All of those things are better than the things that lack them so the Cosmos has all of those things. Thought this logic it will be proven that the Cosmos is
