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Sons of the Earth: Are the Stoics Metaphysical Brutes?
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In this article, it is argued that the Stoics are Sons of the Earth in the sense that the study of corporeals is the most fundamental study of reality, and that they are sophisticated Sons of Earth by developing a complex notion of body.Abstract:
In this paper, it is argued the Stoics develop an account of corporeals that allows their theory of bodies to be, at the same time, a theory of causation, agency, and reason. The paper aims to shed new light on the Stoics' engagement with Plato's Sophist. It is argued that the Stoics are Sons of the Earth insofar as, for them, the study of corporeals – rather than the study of being – is the most fundamental study of reality. However, they are sophisticated Sons of the Earth by developing a complex notion of corporeals. A crucial component of this account is that ordinary bodies are individuated by the way in which the corporeal god pervades them. The corporeal god is the one cause of all movements and actions in the universe.read more
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Spinoza and the Stoics
TL;DR: The authors examined the relationship between Spinoza's metaphysics, epistemology, philosophical psychology, and ethics with their Stoic counterparts and revealed the sense in which Spinoze was, and was not, a Stoic, but also offered new insights into how each system should be understood in itself.
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What do our impressions say? The Stoic theory of perceptual content and belief formation
Abstract: Abstract Here I propose an interpretation of the ancient Stoic psychological theory on which (i) the concepts that an adult human possesses affect the content of the perceptual impressions (φαντασίαι αἰσθητικαί) she forms, and (ii) the content of such impressions is exhausted by an ‘assertible’ (ἀξίωμα) of suitable complexity. What leads the Stoics to accept (i) and (ii), I argue, is their theory of assent and belief formation, which requires that the perceptual impression communicate information suitable to serve as the content of belief. In arguing for (i), I reject a rival interpretation on which conceptualization occurs subsequently to the formation of a perceptual impression. In arguing for (ii), I deny that perceptual impressions have two kinds of content: one formulated in an assertible, the other sensory, featuring independently of this assertible. I explore the implications of (i) and (ii) for the Stoic theory of emotions, expertise, and rationality, and argue that they shed new light on the workings of impression, assent, and belief.
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How Nothing Can Be Something: The Stoic Theory of Void
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the Stoic theory of void reflects a principled and coherent physicalism that sets the Stoics apart from their materialist predecessors and atomist neighbors.
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Bodies and Their Effects: The Stoics on Causation and Incorporeals
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the Stoic notion of causality holds the key to understanding the ontological category of incorporeals and thus Stoic ontology as a whole, and it can only be understood in the light of this connection to ontology.
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A Unified Notion of Cause
TL;DR: In this paper, the Stoics put forward a unified notion of cause: a cause is a bodily because-of-which (δι’ ὅ), which is a pull apart of causes and principles.
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Stoic Natural Philosophy (Physics and Cosmology)
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