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Point 1 implies that pneuma can be
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This is borne out by Cicero‟s rep
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Chrysippus supposed. 159 ” Chrysi
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heat, building on the works of Parm
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sustain bodies and are responsible
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what sustains, and the material sub
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1.2.3 Blending Through and Through:
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type of blending and the one that c
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into it. This is indeed a very intu
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hexeis would merge and thus it woul
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independently existing bodies, but
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But since Chrysippus undoubtedly be
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of principles. They appeal to only
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this may have been understood by th
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interchangeability of the terms is
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shapes they make do not have this f
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Timaeus. The interpretation of Proc
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Plato then moves on to the particul
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existed in a disordered way prior t
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suggests space rather than matter i
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The point of this passage is not to
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2.1.3 Concluding Remarks About the
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Stoic look at the Timaeus in a more
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2.2 Aristotle and Matter: Speusippu
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for Aristotle, as for all ancient w
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The position of King and Charlton r
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generic intelligible matter which u
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Anima Hahm 296 is cautious in accep
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Chapter 3 3.1 Plato’s Late Ontolo
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elation to its model. The metaphysi
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indispensable for knowledge 305 ; y
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not have access to his conversation
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of all three is postulated by this
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The first number series, being the
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3.1.2 The Philebus The Parmenides i
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are not one but unlimited, second h
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The Philebus divides the things tha
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ensure that partake of the One as m
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we saw above, moves very quickly fr
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1) The unlimited still appears to b
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1. In his seventh letter Plato hims
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or limiting factor on some sort of
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It is this fact and Aristotle‟s m
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3.2.1 The Written and Unwritten Doc
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imposition of form by the One 1 . T
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as the Great and Small, we were tol
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3.3 The Old Academy The preceding s
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are then ordered according to the T
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3.3.1 Formal Level: Plato had, quit
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far as a first principle goes this
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most clearly of all the Platonists,
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We know that Speusippus had a keen
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are not. Thus the same result will
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and so on down to the substance of
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the tetraktys which contain the dec
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These thinkers, then, generate magn
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some sort of order. In theory the b
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The tetraktys is, as Dillon points
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In explaining the Pythagorean doctr
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3.4 The Stoics: Xenocrates is the l
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The division of bodies goes on infi
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understand them. It seems plausible
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elaborated by Chrysippus into a the
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eason to suppose that Polemo in par
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But they hold that underlying all t
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applies to the two principles as th
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4.1.1 Heraclitus: Heraclitus‟ pla
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The evidence for the Early Stoics
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the infinite occurrences of his lif
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“turnings of fire: first, sea; an
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philosophy which there is no reason
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Heraclitus says: “the thunderbolt
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ecome earth: out of earth comes wat
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4.2 Biology and the Mythic Account:
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case that god is turning parts of t
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principle I will look at just two p
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concerned, is known by the poets; w
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as a passive element. This also rel
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general influence of the pre-Socrat
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as it will resemble its father more
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which exist at the microscopic as w
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physics. However the major influenc
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the mathematical level also “over
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Academy, and that Chrysippus respon
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Barnes. J. The Pre-Socratic Philoso
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Dampier. W.C. A History of Science
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Gould. J.B. The Philosophy of Chrys
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- Plato and the Foundation of Metap
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Pearson. A.C. The Fragments of Zeno
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- Theophrastus of Eresus: Sources f
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