History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps HoP 062 - We Didn’t Start the Fire - the Stoics on Nature
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Jan 8, 2012 AI Snips
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Cleanthes' Hymn To Zeus
- Cleanthes' hymn, read by Peter Adamson, praises an immanent guiding god that pervades the cosmos.
- Peter Adamson frames this piety as central to early Stoicism.
Material God Woven Through Nature
- The Stoics treat god as a physical, immanent principle woven through all bodies.
- Peter Adamson explains they call this divine principle 'nature' and reject a supernatural immaterial god.
God As A Designing Fire
- Stoics, following Heraclitus, call god a designing, fiery craftsman who wisely builds the cosmos from within.
- Peter Adamson notes they use cosmic design as an argument for providence.