"The world is a perfect animal." Politics and biology in the Stoics

 

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Autore: Nava Contreras, Mariano
Natura: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Data di pubblicazione:2025
Descrizione:This paper attempts to review the Stoic conception of the universe as an immense sentient animal provided with thoughtand perfection to the highest degree, as formulated by Sextus Empiricus in Adv. Math. IX 88 = SVF I 529. This idea has its roots in Aristotelian biology and naturalism, although it was the Stoics who developed it as part of their political thought, with important connotations not only for politics and biology, but also for its ethical, physical and cosmological system. Thisconception constitutes one of the first attempts to establish a relationship between politics and biology in Greek thought.
Stato:Portal de Revistas UCR
Istituzione:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Lingua:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.revistas.ucr.ac.cr:article/1835
Accesso online:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rfilosofia/article/view/1835
Keyword:Stoicismo
politics
biology
Hellenistic Philosophy
Estoicismo
política
biología
filosofía helenística