Self-Causation and Unity in Stoicism
Abstract According to the Stoics, ordinary unified bodies—animals, plants, and inanimate natural bodies—each have a single cause of unity and being: pneuma. Pneuma itself has no distinct cause of unity; on the contrary, it acts as a cause of unity and being for itself. In this paper, I show how pneu...
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
| Έλεγχος διαθεσιμότητας: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2021
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| Στο/Στη: |
Phronesis
Έτος: 2021, Τόμος: 66, Τεύχος: 2, Σελίδες: 178-213 |
| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
self-causation
B Unity B Causation B Stoic Physics B Stoicism |
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| Σύνοψη: | Abstract According to the Stoics, ordinary unified bodies—animals, plants, and inanimate natural bodies—each have a single cause of unity and being: pneuma. Pneuma itself has no distinct cause of unity; on the contrary, it acts as a cause of unity and being for itself. In this paper, I show how pneuma is supposed to be able to unify itself and other bodies in virtue of its characteristic tensile motion ( τονικὴ κίνησις ). Thus, we will see how the Stoics could have hoped to account for corporeal unity by positing another body (pneuma) apparently itself in need of unification. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5284 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: Phronesis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685284-BJA10038 |
