Ricardo Salles

The Stoic Cosmos

Conflagration, Cosmogony, and Recurrence in Early Stoicism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A detailed and accessible reconstruction of the Stoic philosophical doctrine that our cosmos is periodically destroyed and restored. Explains its uniqueness compared to earlier cosmologies and refers to central questions in the interpretation of Stoicism, such as the role of the Stoic god in cosmology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009422796
• ISBN-10: 1009422790
• Artikelnr.: 73310958

Autorenporträt

RICARDO SALLES is a Researcher at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He is the editor of Cosmology and Biology in Ancient Philosophy (Cambridge, 2021).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Overview of the Stoic cosmos
2. The Conflagration
3. Presocratic antecedents of the Stoic conflagration
4. The Cosmogony
5. The metaphysics of everlasting recurrence
6. The recurring cosmos: Why identical?
7. The paradox of destruction and restoration
8. Concluding remarks.