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301. Ancient Philosophy: Volume > 36 > Issue: 1
Agnes Callard Akratics as Hedonists: Protagoras 352b-355a
302. Ancient Philosophy: Volume > 36 > Issue: 1
Jozef Müller What Aristotelian Decisions Cannot Be
303. Ancient Philosophy: Volume > 36 > Issue: 1
Christopher Kurfess The Truth about Parmenides’ Doxa
304. Ancient Philosophy: Volume > 36 > Issue: 1
Russell E. Jones Socrates’ Bleak View of the Human Condition
305. Ancient Philosophy: Volume > 36 > Issue: 1
Rick Benitez Boy! What Boy? (A Plea for Meno’s Slave)
306. Ancient Philosophy: Volume > 36 > Issue: 1
Emily Austin Legislating Immortality in Plato’s Republic
307. Ancient Philosophy: Volume > 36 > Issue: 1
Paul Carelli Power and Character in Plato’s Hippias Minor
308. Ancient Philosophy: Volume > 36 > Issue: 1
Rachana Kamtekar The Soul’s (After-) Life
309. Ancient Philosophy: Volume > 36 > Issue: 1
David Neal Greenwood Porphyry, Rome, and Support for Persecution
310. Ancient Philosophy: Volume > 36 > Issue: 1
J.H. Lesher Verbs for Knowing in Heraclitus’ Rebuke of Hesiod (DK 22B57)
311. Ancient Philosophy: Volume > 36 > Issue: 2
Mitchell Miller What the Dialectician Discerns: A New Reading of Sophist 253d-e
312. Ancient Philosophy: Volume > 36 > Issue: 2
Gregory Kirk Self-Knowledge and Ignorance in Plato’s Charmides
313. Ancient Philosophy: Volume > 36 > Issue: 2
Chiara Robbiano Being is not an object: An interpretation of Parmenides’ fragment DK B2 and a reflection on assumptions
314. Ancient Philosophy: Volume > 36 > Issue: 2
Rhodes Pinto ‘All things are full of gods’: Souls and Gods in Thales
315. Ancient Philosophy: Volume > 36 > Issue: 2
Nathanael Stein Explanation and Hypothetical Necessity in Aristotle
316. Ancient Philosophy: Volume > 36 > Issue: 2
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.
317. Ancient Philosophy: Volume > 36 > Issue: 2
Sebastian Gertz Knowledge, Intellect and Being in Damascius’ Doubts and Solutions Concerning First Principles
318. Ancient Philosophy: Volume > 36 > Issue: 2
Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi Harmonia, Melos, and Rhythmos: Aristotle on Musical Education
319. Ancient Philosophy: Volume > 36 > Issue: 2
Filip Radovic Aristotle on Prevision through Dreams
320. Ancient Philosophy: Volume > 36 > Issue: 2
Cristian Tolsa Ptolemy’s law court analogy and Alexandrian philosophy