The Structure of Stoic Metaphysics

Abstract

Abstract This chapter presents a new interpretation of Stoic ontology. It aims to explain the nature of, and relations between the following: the fundamental items of their physics, bodies; the incorporeal items about which they theorized no less; and universals, towards which the Stoic attitude seems to be a bizarre mixture of realism and anti-realism. The first half of the chapter provides a new model to explain the relationship between the first and second of these items. This model clears up several problems in Stoicism and gives a precise answer to the question of how bodies and incorporeals differ in their mode of being. The second half of this chapter considers the vexed issue of the status of those items in the third item, namely, Stoic universals.

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