Posidonio e la visione organicistica della filosofia

The paper focusses on Posidonius' vision of philosophy as a systematic but organic complex of both theoretical doctrines and scientific competencies (including technical skills of measurement), in the context of the traditional tripartition of philosophy into logic, physics, ethics. The contribution dwells on Posidonian simile of philosophy as a unitary and living being, underlines some differences between Posidonian and other Stoics' points of view and metaphors, and tries to highlight the profound coherence between the definition of philosophy as an organism and the main aspects of Posidonius' psychological, metaphysical and cosmological doctrines.