Chrysippus’ doctrine of the four elements: its place in the Stoic theory of the conflagration and its origins in Anaximenes
Abstract In the present paper I discuss Chrysippus’ argument for the indestructibility of the cosmos at the conflagration at Eusebius, Praeparatio Evangelica 15.18.1-3. This argument complements another Chrysippean argument for the indestructibility the cosmos (Plutarch, De Stoicorum Repugnantiis 1052C), but it proceeds from a different basis: the theory of the dissolution of complex bodies into the four elements and the theory of the reciprocal change of the four elements. As I shall argue, there are important precedents for this argument in Anaximenes and his theory of change. I conclude by looking at two anti-Chrysippean Stoic arguments for the destructibility of the cosmos at the conflagration.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156852873X00177
Long-Sedley 1987: LONG, A.A. / SEDLEY D.N., The Hellenistic Philosophers, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 1987.
Salles 2005: SALLES, R., “Ekpúrosis and the Goodness of God in Cleanthes”, Phronesis 50 (2005), pp. 56-78.
Salles 2009: SALLES, R., “Chrysippus on conflagration and the indestructibility of the cosmos” en: SALLES, R. (ed.), God and Cosmos in Stoicism, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009, pp. 118-134.
Zeller-Mondolfo 1961: ZELLER, E / MONDOLFO, R., La filosofia dei greci nel suo sviluppo storico, Vol. 4, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1961.
Salles, R. (2015). Chrysippus’ doctrine of the four elements: its place in the Stoic theory of the conflagration and its origins in Anaximenes. Azafea: Revista De Filosofía, 17(1), 33–50. https://doi.org/10.14201/12436
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