You'll find that dictionary definitions are almost never a good place to start if your goal is to understand or discuss terms used in philosophical texts.
I guess you could. It's a free country, right. But then you've changed the meaning significantly, and it no longer has much to do with this text or the schools of thought it presents
Thank you for sharing this Dr. Sadler! I am definitely going to have to read this work. I have read some of his On Duties. Which I am very impressed with and I am now a Cicero fan.
Yes, if it wasn't I likely wouldn't be writing about his work
None of this is relevant. Going to delete these comments now.
You'll find that dictionary definitions are almost never a good place to start if your goal is to understand or discuss terms used in philosophical texts.
"Why, then, seeing that the universe gives birth to beings that are animate and wise, should it not be considered animate and wise itself?”
I would su substitute "able to make and store connections" for "wise."
I guess you could. It's a free country, right. But then you've changed the meaning significantly, and it no longer has much to do with this text or the schools of thought it presents
Thank you for sharing this Dr. Sadler! I am definitely going to have to read this work. I have read some of his On Duties. Which I am very impressed with and I am now a Cicero fan.
Yes, he's someone who definitely grew on me over the years