Hellenistic Philosophy Introductory

(Marvins-Underground-K-12) #1

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Sextus M 9.211 (SVF 2.341) [11-44]


... The Stoics say that every cause is a body which causes something
incorporeal in a body. For example, a scalpel, which is a body, causes
in flesh, which is a body, the incorporeal predicate "being cut". Again,
fire, which is a body, causes in wood, which is a body, the incorporeal
predicate "being burned".


Simplicius Comm. on Aristotle's Categories
1b25 (= CIAG 8.66.32-67.2; SVF 2.369)


[11-45]

The Stoics think it right to reduce the number of primary categories.
And among this reduced number they include some which have been
changed. For they divide them into four: substrates [underlying things],
and qualities [qualified things], dispositions [things in a certain state]
and relative dispositions [things in a certain state with respect to
something]...


Galen On Incorporeal Qualities 1, 19.463-464
K. (SVF 2.377)


[11-46]

There was a discussion of qualities and of all accidents, which the
Stoics say are bodies.


Aetius 1.15.6 (=Dox. Gr. p. 313, SVF 1.91) [11-47]


Zeno the Stoic says that colours are primary arrangements of matter.

Galen Comm. On Hippocrates On Humours 1,
16.32 K. (SVF 1.92)


[11-48]

Zeno of Citium believed that, like qualities, substances were totally
mixed.


Aetius 4.20.2 (=Dox. Gr. p. 410, SVF 2.387) [11-49]


The Stoics say that voice is a body. For everything which acts or has
effects is a body. And voice acts and has effects. For we hear it and
perceive it striking our ears and making an impression like a seal-ring
on wax. Again, everything which stimulates or disturbs is a body; and
good music stimulates us and bad music disturbs us. Again, everything
which is in motion is a body; and voice is in motion and strikes smooth
surfaces and is reflected as in the case of a ball thrown against a wall. At
any rate, inside the Egyptian pyramids, one utterance produces four or
even five echoes.

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