Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy
Rachana Kamtekar (ed.)
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2024
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9780191980657
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Vanessa De Harven
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Abstract
The Stoics have often been compared with the earthborn Giants in the Battle of Gods and Giants in Plato’s Sophist, but with diverging opinions about the lessons they drew in reaction to Plato. At issue are questions about what in the Sophist the Stoics were reacting to, how the Stoics are like and unlike the Giants, the status of being for the Stoics, and the extent to which they were Platonizing with their incorporeals. With these open questions in mind, this paper re-examines the Sophist from the Stoic perspective, finding eight distinct challenges that are likely to have been salient to the Stoics, and offers a new account of the Stoics as responding to these challenges with an innovative ontology that prises apart something from being to make room for what is not, and a sophisticated one-world metaphysics that grounds everything there is in two fundamental bodies.
Keywords: Plato, Sophist, Gigantomachia, Stoic, metaphysics, ontology, physicalism, corporealism, incorporeal, grounding
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Ancient Philosophy
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Vanessa de Harven, Something Stoic in Plato’s Sophist In: Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume LXIII (Winter 2022). Edited by: Rachana Kamtekar, Oxford University Press. © Vanessa de Harven 2024. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192885197.003.0006
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