IS PHYSICS EPISTEMOLOGICALLY DEPENDENT ON ETHICS IN STOICISM?
AN AFFIRMATIVE ANSWER FROM STOIC THEOLOGY
Keywords:
Stoic Physics, Stoic Theology, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Stoic preconceptions, BenefitsAbstract
This article maintains that in Stoicism physics depends
epistemologically on ethics because the theological theses (which are part of
stoic physics) about that the gods are beneficial and care about human beings
depend on knowledge of the ethical realm of philosophy to be sustained or
established forcefully. It is possible appreciate that dependence in the response
Stoics would have given to the criticism of other philosophical schools to some
of the Stoic theological theses. This is not a minor issue, because the question
about whether there are foundational relationships between ethics and physics
or not depends on it. The proposal in this article intends to support the negative
answer to this question under discussion in contemporary studies on Stoicism.
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