God and cosmos in stoicism
By: [edited by] Ricardo Sslles.
Contributors: Salles, Ricardo.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780199556144
Subjects: Stoics; Cosmology; Theology
Notes: Includes indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: God and cosmos in stoicism / Ricardo Salles; title: God, providence, and fate; title: How industrious can Zeus be? : the extent and objects of divine activity in stoicism / Thomas BenatouIl; title: The stoics on matter and prime matter : corporealism and theimprint of Plato's Timaeus / Jean-Baptiste Gourinat; title: Chain of causes : what is stoic fate? / Susan SauvE Meyer; title: Elements, cosmogony, and conflagration; title: Chrysippus on physical elements / John M. Cooper; title: Chrysippus on conflagration and the indestructibility of the cosmos / Ricardo Salles; title: Stoic themes in peripatetic physics? / Inna Kupreeva; title: The ethics and religion of stoic cosmo-theology; title: Does cosmic nature matter? : some reflections on the cosmological aspects of stoic ethics / Marcelo Boeri; title: Why physics? / Brad Inwood; title: Stoic philosophical theology and Graeco-Roman religion / Keimpe Algra.