...0 28 11 2024 The Introduction lays out the plan for the book in five sections (Something—Bodies—Incorporeals—Neither Corporeal nor Incorporeal—Everything) and gives background in the contemporary analytic...

...This chapter presents the fundamental doctrines of Stoic natural philosophy. The Stoics’ conviction that nothing exists beyond nature and that reality encompasses mostly bodies—a view nowadays labeled corporealism—led them to discuss substantive metaphysical issues under the heading of physics...

... light on (a) the nature of the corporealism of the Stoics in connection with their theory of principles — what it is for both god and matter to be bodies — and (b) Chrysippus' conception of cosmogony as distinct from that of Zeno and that of Cleanthes. Arius Didymus Arnim H von...

... of Alexandria Nemesius Emesenus Themistius Calcidius Philo Dexippus Plato Sophist Gigantomachia Stoic metaphysics ontology physicalism corporealism incorporeal grounding The Stoics have often been compared with the earthborn Giants in Plato’s Sophist, primarily in passing...

...0 28 11 2024 Chapter 3 begins the account of Stoic corporealism that takes us from the ontology of what exists to the metaphysics of body. It argues that because the Stoic definition of body (solid three-dimensional extension with resistance) is best understood in contrast...

... with the old, natural father and the first Adam and the latter with the new, spiritually nurturing mother and the second Eve. Milton also conflates the reformed nation's spiritual triumph over the corporealism of dynastic kingship with the triumph of Christian allegory over Hebraic literalism. Simultaneously...

...This last chapter outlines some theoretical consequences of dramatic Platonism for contemporary thought. It targets three thoughts evident today: corporealism, linguistic relativism, and cultural relativism. However, dramatic Platonism does not intend to dismiss these three; instead, it only points...

... of our bodies. Manymore deny this—typically on the grounds that we can imagine ourselves coming apart from our bodies. But both sides agree that the bodily criterion is an important view, which anyone thinking about personal identity must consider. personhood Cartesian Account Corporealism life...