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God and Cosmos in Stoicism.
Title:
God and Cosmos in Stoicism.
Author:
Salles, Ricardo.
ISBN:
9780191571732
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (285 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: God and Cosmos in Stoicism -- I. GOD, PROVIDENCE, AND FATE -- 1. How Industrious can Zeus be? The Extent and Objects of Divine Activity in Stoicism -- 2. The Stoics on Matter and Prime Matter: 'Corporealism' and the Imprint of Plato's Timaeus -- 3. Chain of Causes: What is Stoic Fate? -- II. ELEMENTS, COSMOGONY, AND CONFLAGRATION -- 4. Chrysippus on Physical Elements -- 5. Chrysippus on Conflagration and the Indestructibility of the Cosmos -- 6. Stoic Themes in Peripatetic Sources? -- III. THE ETHICS AND RELIGION OF STOIC COSMO-THEOLOGY -- 7. Does Cosmic Nature Matter? Some Remarks on the Cosmological Aspects of Stoic Ethics -- 8. Why Physics? -- 9. Stoic Philosophical Theology and Graeco-Roman Religion -- Index Nominum -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z -- Index Locorum.
Abstract:
Nine new essays examine the close connection between theology and cosmology in Stoic philosophy. The contributors discuss the nature of god, his relation to the material world, fate and causation, rival cosmologies, and the ethical and religious consequences of the Stoic theories of god and cosmos.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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