"This idea of a nonexisting not-something is the object of ridicule in the writings of Alexander, Sextus Empiricus, and Galen. However, it is central not only to the materialism developed by the Stoics, but, as I will argue in the following chapters, for any kind of materialism that aims to function nonreductively. Every materialism requires a frame, a nonmaterial localization, a becoming-space and time, that cannot exist in the same way and with the same form as the objects or things that they frame. Every materialism, whether it is acknowledged openly or not, requires an incorporeal frame. The appeal of the Stoics, even today, lies in the audacity with which they develop the concept of the incorporeal as the subsisting condition of material existence."
"The divine, Zeus, may be understood as immanent and internal to the universe and all that composes it. It is not so much that the universe is composed of an active divine principle and a separate passive material principle: rather, active and passive, divine and material, are completely blended. Pneuma is not distinct from matter but rather matter is always already infused with pneuma."
Elizabeth Grosz, "The Stoics, Materialism, and the Incorporeal" The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017), 28-29.
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