{"product_id":"the-unity-of-stoic-metaphysics-vanessa-de-harven-9780198930167","title":"The Unity of Stoic Metaphysics: Everything Is Something","description":"\u003cem\u003eThe Unity of Stoic Metaphysics\u003c\/em\u003e argues that the Stoics were sophisticated metaphysical thinkers responding to Plato's \u003cem\u003eSophist \u003c\/em\u003eand forging a bold new path between materialism and idealism, with a one-world metaphysics best characterized as non-reductive physicalism. The book is divided into five sections: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSection I, \u003cem\u003eSomething\u003c\/em\u003e, develops the suggestion that the Stoics arrived at the genus Something and their two ontological criteria for being Something by careful reflection on Plato's \u003cem\u003eSophist\u003c\/em\u003e, finding new depth to Plato's challenges as well as to the Stoic response. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSection II, \u003cem\u003eBodies\u003c\/em\u003e, offers an account of Stoic corporealism that takes us from the ontology of what exists to the metaphysics of body, explaining how body can be the fundamental grounds of the cosmos and how qualities can be corporeal. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSection III, \u003cem\u003eIncorporeals\u003c\/em\u003e, takes us beyond corporealism to physicalism. It argues that the Stoic incorporeals--space, time, and the \u003cem\u003elekta\u003c\/em\u003e, or sayables--are all dependent on body for their \u003cem\u003esubsistence\u003c\/em\u003e, inheriting their spatial, temporal, and semantic properties from underlying body without being nothing but the body. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSection IV, \u003cem\u003eNeither Corporeal nor Incorporeal\u003c\/em\u003e, argues in support of a tripartite ontology that includes a third class of entities that are neither corporeal nor incorporeal--limits of the continuum, geometrical limits, and creatures of fiction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSection V, \u003cem\u003eEverything\u003c\/em\u003e, returns to the Stoic ontology, arguing that concepts are not Something, thus no reason remains to posit a further class of entities, Not-Somethings (\u003cem\u003eoutina\u003c\/em\u003e), in metaphysical limbo between Something and nothing at all. The genus Something is complete and comprehensive as it stands. Everything is Something.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Vanessa de Harven\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 019893016X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198930167\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/09\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 560\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.39h x 6.43w x 1.52d","brand":"Vanessa de Harven","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46685937991935,"sku":"9780198930167","price":175.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_75540c26-eb21-4743-adc6-88f771c6a56d.jpg?v=1741727218","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-unity-of-stoic-metaphysics-vanessa-de-harven-9780198930167","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}