Posidonius of Apamea · Philosophy
Posidonius of Apamea - the one man who measured the sun, mapped the tides, wrote fifty-two books of history, and taught Cicero and Pompey - held that philosophy and the sciences are not rivals but one connected inquiry: the philosopher supplies the causes, the special sciences supply the phenomena.
You learned that Posidonius, the last great polymath of the Stoa, treated all knowledge as one connected whole: the special sciences (astronomy, geography, history) establish the phenomena , while philosophy (physics) gives the causes . Explain why he thought the sciences and philosophy need each other, in your own wo…
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