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en-wikipedia-org-726		Cleanthes - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2354	300	69	Cleanthes revolutionized Stoic physics by the theory of tension (tonos) which distinguished Stoic materialism from all conception of matter as dead and inert.[6] He developed Stoic pantheism, and applied his materialistic views to logic and ethics.[7] Thus he argued that the soul was a material substance, and that this was proved (a) by the circumstance that not only bodily qualities, but also mental capacity, are transmitted by ordinary generation from parent to child; and (b) by the sympathy of the soul with the body seen in the fact that, when the body is struck or cut, the soul is pained; and when the soul is torn by anxiety or depressed by care, the body is correspondingly affected.[8] Cleanthes also taught that souls live on after death, but that the intensity of its existence would vary according to the strength or weakness of the particular soul.[9]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-726.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-726.txt