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Abstract

In the present paper I discuss Chrysippus' argument for the indestructibility of the cosmos at the conflagration at Eusebius, Praeparatio Evangelica 15.18.1-3. This argument complements another Chrysippean argument for the indestructibility the cosmos (Plutarch, De Stoicorum Repugnantiis 1052C), but it proceeds from a different basis: the theory of the dissolution of complex bodies into the four elements and the theory of the reciprocal change of the four elements. As I shall argue, there are important precedents for this argument in Anaximenes and his theory of change. I conclude by looking at two anti-Chrysippean Stoic arguments for the destructibility of the cosmos at the conflagration.

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Title
LA DOCTRINA DE LOS CUATRO ELEMENTOS DE CRISIPO: SU LUGAR EN LA TEORÍA ESTOICA DE LA CONFLAGRACIÓN Y SUS ORÍGENES EN ANAXÍMENES/Chrysippus' doctrine of the four elements: its place in the Stoic theory of the conflagration and its origins in Anaximenes
Author
Salles, Ricardo
Pages
33-50
Publication year
2015
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca
ISSN
02133563
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Spanish
ProQuest document ID
1807217699
Copyright
Copyright Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2015