Natural philosophers
group · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
the natural philosophers
in the texts
On Fate
Philosophers of nature who hold that nothing is truly empty and who would object to any claim of an uncaused event.
But again, lest all the natural philosophers should laugh at us for saying that anything comes to pass without a cause, a distinction must be drawn, and it must be put thus:
’ Just as, when we call a jar empty, we do not speak as the natural philosophers do, to whom there is no such thing as the empty, but rather we say, for example, that the jar is without water, without wine, without oil—so, when we say that the mind is moved without a cause, we mean that it is moved without an antecedent and external cause, not without any cause whatever.
Timaeus
Philosophers concerned with the study of nature, against whom the narrator has written in his Academic works.
Much have I written, both in my Academic treatises, against the natural philosophers, and often debated, in the manner and method of Carneades, with Publius Nigidius.
Tusculan Disputations
Natural philosophers cited alongside physicians as teaching how sensation works through the soul.
for there is no sensation in the body, but, as not only the natural philosophers teach but also the physicians, who have seen these things laid open and exposed, there are, as it were, certain channels pierced from the seat of the soul to the eyes, the ears, the nostrils.