"When a man is born, the Stoics say, he has the commanding part of his soul like a sheet of paper ready for writing upon."
— Aetius (c. 100 A.D.)
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100
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"When a man is born, the Stoics say, he has the commanding part of his soul like a sheet of paper ready for writing upon."
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When a man is born, the Stoics say, he has the commanding part of his soul like a sheet of paper ready for writing upon. On this he inscribes each one of his conceptions. The first method of inscription is through the senses. For by perceiving something, e.g. white, they have a memory of it when it has departed. And when many memories of a similar kind have occurred, we say we have experience. For the plurality of similar impressions is experience.
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See Aetius, De Placitis Reliquiae, in H. Diels, ed. Doxographi Graeci (Berlin: de Gruyter, [1879] 1965).
English translation from A.A. Long and D.N. Sedley, eds. The Hellenistic Philosophers (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1987), 1:238.
Quoted in Thomas Hobbes, The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic, ed. J.C.A. Gaskin (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1994), 270n.
English translation from A.A. Long and D.N. Sedley, eds. The Hellenistic Philosophers (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1987), 1:238.
Quoted in Thomas Hobbes, The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic, ed. J.C.A. Gaskin (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1994), 270n.
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10/05/2014
