The Stoic Theory of Essence and Absolutessence

The Stoic theory raises numberless further objections, but we halt here lest we ourselves incur ridicule in combating so evident and absurdity. It suffices if we have demonstrated that these philosophers mistake non-essence for absolutessence,. They assign the first rank to which should occupy the last. The sense world is more of an essence than the things it contains merely because it is their totality. If they insist that matter is perceived by intelligence, it could only be an irrational intelligence which would consider itself inferior to matter.