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[from 'fragments/reports' by Zeno (Citium), in 17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 5. Causal Argument ]

Full Idea

Zeno held (contrary to Xenocrates and others) that it was impossible for anything to be effected that lacked a body, and indeed that whatever effected something or was affected by something must be body.

Gist of Idea

A body is required for anything to have causal relations

Source

report of Zeno (Citium) (fragments/reports [c.294 BCE]) by M. Tullius Cicero - Academica I.39

Book Reference

'The Stoics Reader', ed/tr. Inwood,B/Gerson,L.P. [Hackett 2008], p.86


A Reaction

This seems to make stoics thoroughgoing physicalists, although they consider the mind to be made of refined fire, rather than of flesh.