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Full Idea
Stoics divide physics into topics on bodies, principles, elements, gods, limits, place and void. The general division is into three topics, concerning the cosmos, the elements and causal explanations.
Gist of Idea
Stoic physics concerns cosmos, elements and causes (with six detailed divisions)
Source
report of Stoic school (fragments/reports [c.200 BCE]) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 07.132
Book Ref
'The Stoics Reader', ed/tr. Inwood,B/Gerson,L.P. [Hackett 2008], p.51
A Reaction
Apart from the gods, not much has changed.
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