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SUMMARY:Chrysippus on the Fragility of the Head - Dr. Jenny Bryan\, Junior
  Research Fellow at Homerton and Affiliated Lecturer in Philosophy
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CONTACT:Johanna Hanink
DESCRIPTION:At Attic Nights 7.1. Aulus Gellius gives an account of Chrysip
 pus’ defence of Providence against the objection that a providential wor
 ld should not incorporate ‘a host of troubles and evils’. Chrysippus c
 laims that such evils as illnesses and infirmities of the body are ‘crea
 ted in accordance with nature\, but through certain necessary “concomita
 nces”. The example cited to illustrate his point is the fragility of the
  human head\, precisely the example cited by Plato in the Timaeus to illus
 trate an apparently similar point. I offer a discussion of the nature of t
 hese ‘necessary “concomitances” and the relation between Chrysippus
 ’ argument and the Platonic version to which he seems to be alluding.
LOCATION:The Erasmus Room\, Queens' College
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