Posidonius of Apamea · Philosophy
Posidonius held that the universe is a single living being whose parts are bound together in <em>sympatheia</em> - cosmic sympathy - so that a change in one answers a change in another across vast distances. His proof was the tides: the sea, he showed, breathes in time with the moon.
You learned that Posidonius saw the cosmos as one living being bound by sympatheia , cosmic sympathy, and that he grounded this vision empirically in the correlation of the tides with the moon, and philosophically in fate as an unbroken chain of causes that also made divination intelligible. Explain how the tides, fat…
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