The Unity of Stoic Metaphysics: Everything is Something
Vanessa de Harven, "The Unity of Stoic Metaphysics: Everything is Something"
English | ISBN: 019893016X | 2025 | 552 pages | PDF | 7 MB
English | ISBN: 019893016X | 2025 | 552 pages | PDF | 7 MB
The Unity of Stoic Metaphysics argues that the Stoics were sophisticated metaphysical thinkers responding to Plato's Sophist and forging a bold new path between materialism and idealism, with a one-world metaphysics best characterized as non-reductive physicalism. The book is divided into five sections:
Section I, Something, develops the suggestion that the Stoics arrived at the genus Something and their two ontological criteria for being Something by careful reflection on Plato's Sophist, finding new depth to Plato's challenges as well as to the Stoic response.
Section II, Bodies, offers an account of Stoic corporealism that takes us from the ontology of what exists to the metaphysics of body, explaining how body can be the fundamental grounds of the cosmos and how qualities can be corporeal.
Section III,
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