Boethus of Sidon

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Why Is Boethus of Sidon Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Boethus was a Stoic philosopher from Sidon, and a pupil of Diogenes of Babylon. Philosophy He is said to have denied, contrary to the standard Stoic view, that the cosmos is an animate being, and he suggested that it was not the whole world which was divine, but only the ether or sphere of the fixed stars. He argued that the world was eternal, in particular, he rejected the Stoic conflagration because god or the World-Soul would be inactive during it, whereas it exercises Divine Providence in the actual world.

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