Hellenistic Philosophy Introductory

The Extant Letters 19 the basis of these points and following the method which does not involve verbal expression, with the spee ...

20 /-3 (providing everything is clarified by the method of several different explanations) consistently with the phenomena, when ...

The Extant Letters 21 The size of the sun and the other heavenly bodies relative to us is just as big as it appears.^13 But rel ...

22 /-3 groundlessly reject the others, because of a failure to understand what it is possible for a man to understand and what i ...

The Extant Letters 23 position and were unable to consider together the phenomena which one must accept as signs. The varying l ...

24 /-3 the heavenly bodies, which is then driven together by the motion of the clouds and winds and is expelled by the clouds; o ...

The Extant Letters 25 whatever way their production might take place owing to the movement of the wind; and when it [is forced d ...

26 /-3 Dew is produced by the assembling from the air of [particles] which become productive of this sort of moisture; and also ...

The Extant Letters 27 around which the rest rotates is stationary, as some people say, but also because there is a circular rota ...

28 /-3 to 1-4 necessity to bear on the production of winter, nor does any divine nature sit around waiting for these animals to ...

The Extant Letters 29 views about the gods. The man who denies the gods of the many is not impious, but rather he who ascribes t ...

30 1-4 and of the natural desires some are necessary and some merely natural; and of the necessary, some are necessary for happi ...

The Extant Letters 31 some believe, either from ignorance and disagreement or from deliberate misinterpretation, but rather the ...

32 /-5 Ancient Collections of Maxims The Principal Doctrines: Diogenes Laertius 10.139-154 [I-5] I What is blessed and indestruc ...

Ancient Collections of Maxims 33 and pains and, moreover, if they taught us the limit of our desires, then we would not have rea ...

34 /-5 one's whole life perfect. So there is no need for things which involve struggle. XXII One must reason about the real goal ...

Ancient Collections of Maxims 35 produced by a groundless opinion and they fail to be dissolved not because of their own nature ...

36 /-5 to /-6 about external threats is he who has made the manageable things akin to himself, and has at least made the unmanag ...

Ancient Collections of Maxims 37 secured the goods about which he was previously not confident by means of his secure sense of g ...

38 /-6 One should not spoil what is present by desiring what is absent, but rather reason out that these things too [i.e., what ...