Hellenistic Philosophy Introductory

On Fate 187 the cause of impulse is not in us then impulse itself is not in our own power; and if this is so, not even what is p ...

Short Fragments and Testimonia from Uncertain Works 91 together and [so] produced the nature of fluids. And since this [nature] ...

188 l/-90 to l/-92 nature. But if something were produced without an antecedent cause, then it would be false that everything oc ...

92 Alexander of Aphrodisias Commentary on Aristotle's De Sensu 438a5 ff. CIAG 3.1, 34.18-22 (319 U) 1-98 to 1-105 [1-98] [Democr ...

On Fate 189 also do not act correctly or have correct opinions or hold stable beliefs or get benefit because of fate, but instea ...

Short Fragments and Testimonia from Uncertain Works 93 Origen Against Celsus 1.24 (334 U) [1-102] As to this, one should also sa ...

190 l/-92 to l/-94 follow, he will nevertheless be forced to. The same thing happens in the case of men. Even if they do not wan ...

94 /-105 to /-115 morphic images strike them while they sleep they supposed that some such anthropomorphic gods also existed in ...

Ethics 191 Diogenes, Anti pater and Posidonius. For Zeno of Citium and Cleanthes, as might be expected from earlier thinkers, ma ...

Short Fragments and Testimonia from Uncertain Works 95 Aetius 1.29.5 = Dox.Gr. p. 326 (375 U) [1-110] Epicurus says that all thi ...

192 l/-94 administrator of the universe. So Diogenes says explicitly that the goal is reasonable behaviour in the selection of t ...

96 /-115 to /-129 ing rhetoric, and about kingship to discourage us from consorting with kings. Ammianus Marcellinus 30.4.3 (51 ...

Ethics 193 are good and bad and neither; courage is knowledge of which things are to be chosen and avoided and neither; and .... ...

Short Fragments and Testimonia from Uncertain Works Maximus the Abbot Gnomologium 66 (215 U, 200 A) 97 [1-123] "Do not turn away ...

194 l/-94 Again, of goods some are final and some are instrumental and some are both final and instrumental. So a friend and the ...

98 /-130 to /-140 Athenaeus Deipnosophists 12, 546f ( 409 U) [1-130] And Epicurus says, "the principle and root of all good is t ...

Ethics 195 They say that only the honourable is good, according to Hecaton in book three of his On Goods and Chrysippus in his ...

Short Fragments and Testimonia from Uncertain Works 99 good, don't you think that they are using the soul as a kind of decanter ...

196 l/-94 Of things indifferent, they say that some are preferred and some rejected; preferred are those which have value, rejec ...

100 1-141 to 1-155 Porphyry To Marcella 27 ( 471 U) [1-141] "It is rare to find a man who is with regard to the goal set by nat ...