Unity of Stoic Metaphysics - Everything Is Something

This volume explores the metaphysics devised by Stoic philosophers in response to Plato. It elucidates ontological criteria for counting things as being, and metaphysical principles for grounding these entities, which together support the view that everything there is either is a body or is something ontologically dependent on body.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Section I. Something


• 1: Plato's Sophist


• 2: Ontological Criteria


• Section II. Bodies


• 3: Body as Such


• 4: Bodies Blending


• 5: Basic Bodies


• 6: Building Bodies


• 7: The Categories, State of the Debate


• 8: The Categories, A Fresh Start


• Section III. Incorporeals


• 9: The Incorporeals, A Grounded Account


• 10: Space


• 11: Time


• 12: The Lekta, Why Language is Earthborn Too


• Section IV. Neither Corporeal nor Incorporeal, or: What Subsists according to Thought


• 13: Limits


• 14: Creatures of Fiction


• Section V. Everything


• 15: Concepts


• 16: Everything is Something

Summary

This volume explores the metaphysics devised by Stoic philosophers in response to Plato. It elucidates ontological criteria for counting things as being, and metaphysical principles for grounding these entities, which together support the view that everything there is either is a body or is something ontologically dependent on body.

Product details

• Authors: Vanessa de Harven, Vanessa (Associate Professor De Harven
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.01.2025
• EAN: 9780198930167
• ISBN: 978-0-19-893016-7
• No. of pages: 560
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500