Alessandrelli, Michele (Author)
Bruniana & Campanelliana: Ricerche Filosofiche e Materiali Storico-testuali
Volume: 26
Issue: 1
Pages: 85-105
This essay outlines the Stoic doctrine of conflagration. Its dependence on Heraclitus and his belief in conflagration and cosmogony is affirmed. The Stoics found in Heraclitus a representation of the conflagration but not a theoretical exposition. Their contribution consisted precisely in formulating such a theory. However, as they drew upon the Ionian tradition, a tension emerged between the original core of the Heraclitean doctrine, deeply mystical and religious in nature, and the reductionist materialism implied by the Ionian tradition. Another relevant contrast concerns the conceptual scheme underlying the Stoic view of conflagration, determined by a permanentist scheme of the Aristotelian sort, on the one hand, and an emanationist scheme of Heraclitean derivation, on the other. Finally, the author formulates the hypothesis that the conflagration is a sort of crucible of Zeus’ thoughts and that time accompanies the unfolding of this supreme theoretical activity.
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