In Stoic physics, the Earth and the universe are all part of a single whole.
Stoic physics refers to the natural philosophy of the Stoic philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome which they used to explain the natural processes at work in the universe.
To the Stoics, the cosmos is a single pantheistic god, one which is rational and creative, and which is the basis of everything which exists. Nothing incorporeal exists. The nature of the world is one of unceasing change, driven by the active part or reason (logos) of God which pervades all things. The active substance of the world is characterized as a 'breath', or pneuma, which provides form and motion to matter, and is the origin of the elements, life, and human rationality. The cosmos proceeds from an original state in utmost heat, and, in the cooling and separation that occurs, all things appear which are only different and stages in the change of primitive being. Eventually though, the world will be reabsorbed into the primary substance, to be consumed in a general conflagration (ekpyrôsis), out of which a new cycle begins again.
Since the world operates through reason, all things are determined. But the Stoics adopted a compatibilist view which allowed humans freedom and responsibility within the causal network of fate. Humans are part of the logos which permeates the cosmos. The human soul is a physical unity of reason and mind. The good for a human is thus to be fully rational, behaving as Nature does in the natural order.
Stoicphysics refers to the natural philosophy of the Stoic philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome which they used to explain the natural processes at...
and Ancient Rome. The Stoics believed that the practice of virtue is enough to achieve eudaimonia: a well-lived life. The Stoics identified the path to...
ISBN 978-0-140-44140-6. Michael J. White, "Stoic Natural Philosophy (Physics and Cosmology)," p. 134, and Dorothea Frede, "Stoic Determinism," p. 186, both in The...
Stoicism.[citation needed] The Stoics provided a unified account of the world, constructed from ideals of logos, physics, and ethics. Chrysippus, the third...
preserved and developed Zeno's doctrines. He originated new ideas in Stoicphysics, and developed Stoicism in accordance with the principles of materialism...
Glossary of terms commonly found in Stoic philosophy. Contents: A D E H K L N O P S T adiaphora ἀδιάφορα: indifferent things, neither good nor bad. agathos...
physical bodies. It is both an extended discussion (and polemic) on Stoicphysics, and an exposition of Aristotelian thought on this theme. On the Principles...
Lapidge, Stoic Cosmology. Rist, John M. (ed.), The Stoics. Cambridge University Press, 1978, pp. 182–183. Harrill, J. Albert. "StoicPhysics, the Universal...
the Stoic commentators took their editions of it in hand". The Stoics divided their own philosophy into three parts: ethics, logic, and physics. The...
Michael J. (2003). "Stoic Natural Philosophy (Physics and Cosmology)". In Inwood, Brad (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics. Cambridge University...
philosopher from Citium (Κίτιον, Kition), Cyprus. He was the founder of the Stoic school of philosophy, which he taught in Athens from about 300 BC. Based...
Manuductionis ad stoicam philosophiam (Introduction to Stoic Philosophy) and Physiologia stoicorum (StoicPhysics), both published in 1604. Jonathan Israel considers...
was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was a native of Soli, Cilicia, but moved to Athens as a young man, where he became a pupil of the Stoic philosopher...
(ποιόν): The way matter is organized to form an individual object; in Stoicphysics, a physical ingredient (pneuma: air or breath), which informs the matter...
universe, and exists without multiplicity and beyond being and non-being. Stoicphysics called the primitive substance of the universe pneuma or God, which...
on issues concerning the concept of a vacuum. Eventually following Stoicphysics in this instance, scholars from the 14th century onward increasingly...
learned man of his time and, possibly, of the entire Stoic school. After a period learning Stoic philosophy from Panaetius in Athens, he spent many years...
one was to dedicate their life studying Stoic logic, Stoic physics, and Stoic ethics. Stoics describe themselves as "living in agreement with nature."...
Valentinian doctrine, but there are things reminiscent of Aristotelian and Stoicphysics. The whole book is a mixture of Hellenism and Hebraism, in which the...
Cicero wrote that Zeno was known to have held the view, central to Stoicphysics, that nature is primarily "directed and concentrated...to secure for...
supplemented, (for example, by the unpredictable clinamen of Epicurus), and in Stoicphysics, the pneuma assumed the role of logos. Galen believed the lungs draw...
Lucius Annaeus Cornutus (Ancient Greek: Ἀνναῖος Κορνοῦτος) was a Stoic philosopher who flourished in the reign of Nero (c. 60 AD), when his house in Rome...
412 CE, whereas all prior Christian authors supported free will against Stoic and Gnostic determinism. However, there are many Biblical passages that...
portions of Stoic philosophical works, which, as well as ethics, must have included instruction in the logic and physics which were part of the Stoic system...
philosophy to Physics, not to Logic, and appears not to have undertaken any original treatment of the latter. In Physics he gave up the Stoic doctrine of...
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