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Aristotle had severed the deity from Nature and placed it outside the latter as an incorporeal being whose chief determining factor was reason. In Strato’s view the deity was identical with Nature and, like the latter, was without consciousness; consciousness was only found in organic nature.
A denial of the popular gods is not necessarily implied in Strato’s theory, but seems reasonable in itself and is further rendered probable by the fact that all writers seem to take it for granted that Strato knew no god other than the whole of Nature. We designated Socratic philosophy, in its relation to popular belief, as a reaction against the radical free-thought of the sophistic movement.
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