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1. Ancient Philosophy: Volume > 36 > Issue: 2
Rhodes Pinto ‘All things are full of gods’: Souls and Gods in Thales
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Chiara Robbiano Being is not an object: An interpretation of Parmenides’ fragment DK B2 and a reflection on assumptions
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Gregory Kirk Self-Knowledge and Ignorance in Plato’s Charmides
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Mitchell Miller What the Dialectician Discerns: A New Reading of Sophist 253d-e
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Nathanael Stein Explanation and Hypothetical Necessity in Aristotle
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Filip Radovic Aristotle on Prevision through Dreams
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Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi Harmonia, Melos, and Rhythmos: Aristotle on Musical Education
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Eduardo Boechat Stoic Physics and the Aristotelianism of Posidonius
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In a famous passage of his Geography, Strabo comments about a supposed peculiarity in the natural philosophy of the Stoic philosopher Posidonius of Apamea: ‘For there is much enquiry into causes in him [Posidonius], that is, “Aristotelising”, a thing which our School [the Stoics] sheers off from because of the concealment of causes’ (Strabo ii 3.8 = T 85 E-K). Yet, although the affinities between Posidonius’ aetiological project and Peripatetic scientific quest seem clear enough, scholarship has not investigated so far whether Posidonius’ interest in meteorology entailed the adoption of changes in the orthodox Stoic physics. This is the ultimate purpose of this article. I aim to show that Posidonius incorporated important Peripatetic concepts into Stoic cosmology. The article is divided into two sections. The first section presents the analysis of recent scholarship regarding the core concepts of the physics of the Early Stoa. In the second one, I examine in detail four fragments of Posidonius (F 84/97a, F 93a, F 229, F 219 EK) and identify the consistent modifications that he adopted: a finitist cosmological model, absolute directions in space guiding elemental motion, active and passive elements bearing mutually contrasting qualities, and heat as the efficient cause of meteorological phenomena.
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Cristian Tolsa Ptolemy’s law court analogy and Alexandrian philosophy
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Sebastian Gertz Knowledge, Intellect and Being in Damascius’ Doubts and Solutions Concerning First Principles
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From Plato to Platonism
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12. Ancient Philosophy: Volume > 36 > Issue: 1
J.H. Lesher Verbs for Knowing in Heraclitus’ Rebuke of Hesiod (DK 22B57)
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Christopher Kurfess The Truth about Parmenides’ Doxa
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Agnes Callard Akratics as Hedonists: Protagoras 352b-355a
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Paul Carelli Power and Character in Plato’s Hippias Minor
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Nicholas D. Smith Socrates on the Human Condition
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Russell E. Jones Socrates’ Bleak View of the Human Condition
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Rick Benitez Boy! What Boy? (A Plea for Meno’s Slave)
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Rachana Kamtekar The Soul’s (After-) Life
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Emily Austin Legislating Immortality in Plato’s Republic
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