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The Stoics on World‐Conflagration and Everlasting Recurrence

Long, A. A.·2006·From Epicurus to Epictetus
DOI 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199279128.003.0013
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In his bookOn providence, Chrysippus, the most learned and rigorous of Stoic philosophers, discussed the recurrence of the world. ‘Since this is so,’ he went on, ‘it is evidently not impossible that we too, after our death, will return to the shape we now are, when certain periods of time have elapsed.’ It is shown that certain aspects of Stoic cosmology are less foolish than they have often been judged to be. The everlasting recurrence of the world, together with the exact replication of ourselves, is an inevitable consequence of mainstream Stoic thinking on causation, time, physical process, and theology. So far from being baldly assumed, or defectively argued, the world-conflagration and everlasting recurrence appear to be over-determined by a convergence of considerations from Stoic philosophy.

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Long, A. A.
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Long, A. A.
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Long, A. A.
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From Epicurus to Epictetus
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Oxford University PressOxford
Published
2006-09-14
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256-282
DOI
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199279128.003.0013
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W4236884849
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  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Classical Philosophy and Thought
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Classics › Classical Antiquity Studies
Keywords
Stoicism, Chrysippus, Stoic cosmology, causality, time, afterlife, reincarnation, Stoic theology

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