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Título del libro: God And Cosmos In Stoicism
Título del capítulo: Chrysippus on Conflagration and the Indestructibility of the Cosmos

Autores UNAM:
RICARDO SALLES AFONSO DE ALMEIDA;
Autores externos:

Idioma:
Inglés
Año de publicación:
2010
Palabras clave:

Chrysippus; Cleanthes; Conflagration; Cosmos; Stoic cosmology


Resumen:

This chapter deals with Chrysippus' claim that the cosmos 'should not be said to die'. It argues that the claim is of great significance for our understanding of early Stoic cosmology because it reflects a clash within the school between two conceptions of the conflagration: Chrysippus' own conception and that of Cleanthes. The chapter proceeds as follows. Section 1 reconstructs Chrysippus' arguments. Its strength resides in the fact that it is based on Cleanthean premises; theses that Cleanthes either defends as tenets of his own cosmology or that are fully consistent with his cosmology. In consequence, Chrysippus's argument reveals a tension in Cleanthes' cosmology: the latter cannot consistently claim, as he actually does, that the cosmos will be destroyed at the conflagration. Sections 2 and 3 are devoted to exploring the theses in Cleanthes that seem to generate this inconsistency. Section 4 explains how this conflict comes from a difference in the elemental theories of Cleanthes and Chrysippus. © Oxford University Press, 2013. All Rights Reserved.


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