Webb31 juli 2024 · Philo A. replies to Demea 1. that he is only trying to show Cleanthes the dangers of his way of arguing 2. but that Cleanthes has nevertheless given a fair account … Webbcommon opinion that Philo has progressively demolished the Design argument that Cleanthes presented in Part 2 - a process that culminates in Philo' s cry of triumph at the …
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Webb1. Nature resembles a machine that is designed by an intelligent being. (P) 2. Similar effects have similar causes. (P) 3. The cause of nature is similar to the cause of a machine, that is, an intelligent being. (1,2) Accordingly, Philo objects to this argument through attacking Cleanthes’s premises and conclusion. WebbBetween the two aforementioned, Cleanthes is an avowed theist and, moreover, one who is arguing for a rational God who can be understood in human terms. Philo, on the other … binary_threshold
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Webb6 aug. 2006 · In Parts 1–8, Cleanthes is portrayed as a dogmatist, and Philo a pyrrhonian, who attacks Cleanthes' Argument from Design to the point where, at the end of Part 8, a suspense of judgement is deemed the only viable position on the matter of the intelligence of the designer of the world. Webbverses. Philo is quick to point this out with devastating force. (pp. 23-24) By the end of the second dialogue, it seems to me, both Philo and Cleanthes are fully aware that the argument is more complex. The discussion does not, however, end there. Early in the third dialogue, Cleanthes advances a different Cleanthes , of Assos, was a Greek Stoic philosopher and boxer who was the successor to Zeno of Citium as the second head (scholarch) of the Stoic school in Athens. Originally a boxer, he came to Athens where he took up philosophy, listening to Zeno's lectures. He supported himself by working as a water-carrier at night. After the death of Zeno, c. 262 BC, he became the head of the school, a post he held for the next 32 years. Cleanthes successfully preserved and developed Ze… binary thinking versus spectrum thinking