HoP 062 - We Didn’t Start the Fire - the Stoics on Nature

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

Peter Adamson

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Society & Culture:philosophy

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🗓️ 8 January 2012

⏱️ 21 minutes

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The Stoic cosmos: suffused with divinity, surrounded by void, and endlessly repeating

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0:00.0	Do you?
0:02.0	Do you do.
0:04.0	Do you do do you
0:05.0	do do
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0:07.0	do you do do you
0:08.0	do you
0:10.0	do you Hi, I'm Peter Adamson, and you're listening to the History of Philosophy podcast brought to you with the support of King's College London and the Lever Hume Trust online at
0:24.8	W.W. History of Philosophy.net. Today's episode, We didn't start the fire, the Stoics on nature.
0:35.0	Most majestic of immortals, many titled Ever omnipotent Zeus,
0:40.0	Prime mover of nature, who with your law steer all things hail to you for it is proper for any
0:47.4	mortal to address you we are your offspring and alone of all mortal creatures which are
0:52.2	alive and tread the earth, we bear a likeness to God.
0:56.0	Therefore I shall hymn you and sing forever of your might.
1:00.0	All this Cosmos as it spins around the earth obeys you, whichever way you lead and willingly submits to your sway.
1:07.0	Such is the double-edged fiery ever-living thunderbolt, which you hold at the ready in your unvanquished hands.
1:14.8	For under its strokes all the works of nature are accomplished.
1:19.0	With it you direct the universal reason which runs through all things, and intermingles with the lights of heaven, both great and small.
1:27.0	This in the translation of the indispensable long and saidly reader, entitled the Hellenistic philosophers, is the beginning of a hymn to Zeus
1:36.0	written by the Stoic Cleanthes. Cleanthes, as you might remember, was the successor of Zeno,
1:42.4	the founder of Stoicism, and the predecessor of the great
1:45.8	Chrysippus.
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