The Stoic Creed - College of Stoic Philosophers

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The Stoics debt to Heracleitus... -87
Their primitive substance . . . .
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Their cosmogony described .88
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Seminal reason
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The world how evolved.... .88
The heavenly bodies . . . . .
.89
Man, as consubstantial with the divine . .
.89
^ His reason (\6yos, rb Tjye/jioviKov)
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.89
NThe Anima Mundi -, . . .
.90
The doctrine of
Cycles
N Universal Law, Destiny, and Providence . . .92
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Conflagration and Regeneration 91
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Points of interest for moderns in this Cosmic theory
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92
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Materiality of the Soul -94
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The World perfect
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-93
^Yhe Deity material ....
How Cleanthes proves
it . . . .
-95
Eschatology
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-95
Difficulties about the reabsorption of the soul . . .96
The duration of the soul . . . .
96
Absorption in relation to earthly life . . . .96
Recollection and previous states of existence . .
97
Seneca and Immortality
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-97
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The Stoic Cosmology not .
fully satisfactory
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99
v Jews of the relation of supreme Mind and Matter .
(1) Each eternal and independent
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99
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(2) Each eternal, but one dependent on the other . . 100
(3) One alone eternal and independent and the other created 101
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of evil -103
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(4) One
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sole existence, eternal and self-contained . . 102
Each of these views considered . . .
103
\he Stoic view
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Disparity between physics and ethics of Stoics 103
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^Conception Slavery
Progress and recurrent cycles .104
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Other physical speculations deferred .... 104