God and Cosmos in Stoicism

ISBN: 9780199556144 出版年：2010 页码：285 Oxford University Press

Introduction: God and Cosmos in Stoicism PART 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? PART 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 physics? PART III: THE ETHICS AND RELIGION OF STOIC COSMO-THEOLOGY 7. Does cosmic nature matter? Some reflections on the cosmological aspects of Stoic ethics 8. Why Physics? 9. Stoic Philosophical Theology and Graeco-Roman Religion