On the Early Stoics’ Doctrine of the Conception of the Human Soul
The article deals with the specificity of perceptions in the early Stoa, concerning the conception of animated being. According to the early Stoics, the executive part of the human soul plays the main role of fertilizing power. They believed the stimulus to the conception to be the world pneuma considered a substance by them. Later the Stoics begun to use the notion of seed instead of the abstract pneuma, reflected in the nature of things around them. The feminine in the process of conception was regarded by the Stoics as passive. Therefore it remains unclear how the Stoics imagined the transmission of hereditary factors through matrilineal lines