大地之子：斯多亚学派是形而上学的野蛮派吗？

Sons of the Earth: Are the Stoics Metaphysical Brutes?

本文要论证斯多亚学派关于物质性事物的论述,让他们关于物体的理论同时成为关于原因、能动性和理性的理论。本文意在给斯多亚学派与柏拉图《智者》的关系提供新的视角。对斯多亚学派来讲,研究物质性的事物,而非研究'存在',才是对实在最基本的研究,在这个意义上,他们确实是《智者》中说到的'大地之子'。但他们是一种更精致的大地之子,因为他们发展出了一种更加复杂的关于物质性事物的理论。这个理论中至关重要的一环是,物质性的神充盈在通常的物体之中,从而使那些物体获得了个体性。物质性的神是宇宙中一切运动和行动的唯一原因。

This paper argues that the Stoics develop an account of corporeals that allows their theory of bodies to be a theory of causation,agency,and reason at the same time.Through this analysis,the author aims to shed new light on the Stoics’engagement with Plato’s Sophist,and points out that the Stoics are'Sons of the Earth'insofar as,for them,the study of corporeals—rather than the study of'being'—is the most fundamental study of reality.However,they are sophisticated'Sons of the Earth'by developing a complex notion of corporeals.A crucial component of this account is that ordinary bodies are individuated by the way in which the corporeal god pervades them.The corporeal god is the one cause of all movements and actions in the universe.