Abstract / Description of output
This chapter presents a brief preliminary survey of several texts which might suggest a close affinity between the Peripatetic and Stoic doctrines of principles. The goal is to see to what extent these parallels may amount to a genuinely shared position on any of the issues under examination. The discussion starts with the Antiochean account of the physics of `Old Academy' presented in Cicero's Acad. 1. 24-9. Section 2 deals with `physical' fragments of Peripatetic Critolaus; it tries to see whether they could provide any ground for Antiochus' incorporation of Peripatetic physics. The third section deals with the `suspect' cases of Stoicizing in the Peripatetic tradition: Xenarchus' arguments against the fifth body and the use of the concept `prime matter' by Boethus of Sidon and Nicolaus of Damascus. Section 4 looks at some parallel discussions in Alexander of Aphrodisias.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | God and Cosmos in Stoicism |
| Editors | Ricardo Salles |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 135-170 |
| Number of pages | 36 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978 0 19 955614 4 |
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| Publication status | Published - Sept 2009 |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- Cicero
- Stoicism
- Xenarchus
- old academy
- Alexander of Aphrodisias
- Antiochus
- Stoic themes
- peripatetic sources
- Boethus of Sidon
- Nicolaus of Damascus