Stoic physics refers to the natural philosophy of the Stoic philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome which they used to explain the natural processes at...
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Stoicism (redirect from Stoics and Stoic Philosophy)
and Ancient Rome. The Stoics believed that the practice of virtue is enough to achieve eudaimonia: a well-lived life. The Stoics identified the path to...
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Hellenistic philosophy (section Stoic physics)
what is now called Stoicism. The Stoics provided a unified account of the world, constructed from ideals of logos, physics, and ethics. Chrysippus, the third...
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Pneuma (redirect from Pneuma (Stoic))
ISBN 978-0-140-44140-6. Michael J. White, "Stoic Natural Philosophy (Physics and Cosmology)," p. 134, and Dorothea Frede, "Stoic Determinism," p. 186, both in The...
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Cleanthes (category Stoic philosophers)
preserved and developed Zeno's doctrines. He originated new ideas in Stoic physics, and developed Stoicism in accordance with the principles of materialism...
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Glossary of Stoicism terms (redirect from Stoic glossary)
Glossary of terms commonly found in Stoic philosophy. Contents: A D E H K L N O P S T adiaphora ἀδιάφορα: indifferent things, neither good nor bad. agathos...
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physical bodies. It is both an extended discussion (and polemic) on Stoic physics, and an exposition of Aristotelian thought on this theme. On the Principles...
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Lapidge, Stoic Cosmology. Rist, John M. (ed.), The Stoics. Cambridge University Press, 1978, pp. 182–183. Harrill, J. Albert. "Stoic Physics, the Universal...
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Zeno of Citium (redirect from Zeno the Stoic)
philosopher from Citium (Κίτιον, Kition), Cyprus. He was the founder of the Stoic school of philosophy, which he taught in Athens from about 300 BC. Based...
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Michael J. (2003). "Stoic Natural Philosophy (Physics and Cosmology)". In Inwood, Brad (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics. Cambridge University...
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Heraclitus (section Stoics)
the Stoic commentators took their editions of it in hand". The Stoics divided their own philosophy into three parts: ethics, logic, and physics. The...
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Neostoicism (redirect from Neo-stoic)
Manuductionis ad stoicam philosophiam (Introduction to Stoic Philosophy) and Physiologia stoicorum (Stoic Physics), both published in 1604. Jonathan Israel considers...
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Theory of categories (section Stoic)
(ποιόν): The way matter is organized to form an individual object; in Stoic physics, a physical ingredient (pneuma: air or breath), which informs the matter...
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Chrysippus (category Stoic philosophers)
was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was a native of Soli, Cilicia, but moved to Athens as a young man, where he became a pupil of the Stoic philosopher...
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of the cosmos itself by the 17th century. This idea, influenced by Stoic physics, helped to segregate natural and theological concerns. Almost two thousand...
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reductionism, especially that of the atomists and to a large extent, stoic physics. Later mechanists believed the achievements of the scientific revolution...
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universe, and exists without multiplicity and beyond being and non-being. Stoic physics (c. 300 BCE–3rd century CE) called the primitive substance of the universe...
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Posidonius (category Stoic philosophers)
learned man of his time and, possibly, of the entire Stoic school. After a period learning Stoic philosophy from Panaetius in Athens, he spent many years...
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Philosophy of happiness (section Stoics)
one was to dedicate their life studying Stoic logic, Stoic physics, and Stoic ethics. Stoics describe themselves as "living in agreement with nature."...
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Valentinian doctrine, but there are things reminiscent of Aristotelian and Stoic physics. The whole book is a mixture of Hellenism and Hebraism, in which the...
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Lucius Annaeus Cornutus (category Roman-era Stoic philosophers)
Lucius Annaeus Cornutus (Ancient Greek: Ἀνναῖος Κορνοῦτος) was a Stoic philosopher who flourished in the reign of Nero (c. 60 AD), when his house in Rome...
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supplemented, (for example, by the unpredictable clinamen of Epicurus), and in Stoic physics, the pneuma assumed the role of logos. Galen believed the lungs draw...
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Cicero wrote that Zeno was known to have held the view, central to Stoic physics, that nature is primarily "directed and concentrated...to secure for...
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Basilides (Greek: Βασιλείδης; 2nd century BC), was a Stoic philosopher who denied the existence of incorporeal entities. Nothing is known about the life...
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Existential Literature Stoa Poikile Stochastic process Stoic categories Stoic passions Stoic physics Stoicism Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta Stone paradox Strabo...
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Determinism (section Day-to-day physics)
412 CE, whereas all prior Christian authors supported free will against Stoic and Gnostic determinism. However, there are many Biblical passages that...
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Ancient Greek word ekpyrosis (ἐκπύρωσις, "conflagration"), which refers to a Stoic cosmological model in which the universe is caught in an eternal cycle of...
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Chaeremon of Alexandria (category Roman-era Stoic philosophers)
Χαιρήμονος; fl. 1st century AD) was a Stoic philosopher and historian who wrote on Egyptian mythology from a "typically Stoic" perspective. According to the...
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Basileios Stoa of Attalos Stoa of Eumenes Stoibadeion Stoic categories Stoic logic Stoic passions Stoic physics Stoichedon Stoicism Strabo Strangford Apollo Strategos...
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portions of Stoic philosophical works, which, as well as ethics, must have included instruction in the logic and physics which were part of the Stoic system...
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