SPEUSIPPUS

spyoosĭpˈəs, fl. 347–339 b.c., Greek philosopher; disciple and nephew of Plato, whom he succeeded as head of the Academy. Speusippus distinguished 10 grades of being, thereby prefiguring Neoplatonism. He held that the good is not the source of being but is its goal. One of his most significant ideas is that it is impossible to have satisfactory knowledge of anything without knowing all things besides. A portion of his writings on Pythagorean numbers has survived.

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The Heirs of Plato: A Study of the Old Academy, 347-274 B.C
Book by John Dillon; Clarendon, 2005
Subjects: Platonists
...that, even if it were, these figures, Speusippus, Xenocrates, Polemo, and their associates...thesis of this book that, between them, Speusippus and Xenocrates set the agenda for what...the mainstream of Middle Platonism, Speusippus, with some of his more daring speculations...
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Collected Papers, 1962-1999
Book by Leonardo Taran; Brill, 2001
...and Magnitudes: Remarks on Plato, Speusippus, and Aristotle 247 14 The Manuscript...Metaphysics M 6, 1080 A 15-37 412 24 Speusippus and Aristotle on Homonymy and Synonymy...II (Platos students). Cf. L. Tarin, Speusippus of Athenr (Leiden 1981), pp. 383-386...
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A History of Ancient Philosophy: From the Beginnings to Augustine
Book by Karsten Friis Johansen; Routledge, 1998
Subjects: Philosophy, Ancient--History
...18 Plato and the early Academy 254 The Seventh Letter 254 The unwritten doctrines 255 Speusippus and Xenocrates 262 PART IV: ARISTOTLE 19 Life, works and position 269 Works 271 The...
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Theopompus of Chios: History and Rhetoric in the Fourth Century BC
Book by Michael Attyah Flower; Clarendon Press, 1997
Subjects: Greece--History--To 146 B.C--Historiography, Historians--Greece--Biography, Historiography--Greece, Theopompus--Of Chios
...reference to him in the letter which Speusippus, the nephew of Plato and head of the...facts emerge from this letter. 30 Speusippus alleges section 12 that Theopompus...have made sense in the context for Speusippus to have accused to determine exactly...
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The People of Plato: A Prosopography of Plato and Other Socratics
Book by Debra Nails; Hackett, 2002
Subjects: Athens (Greece)--Biography, Plato--Dialogues, Plato--Friends And Associates, Socrates--Friends And Associates
...ed., Amsterdam, Hakkert 1966 <1873>. Ep. Socratis et Socraticorum Epistulae Speu. Speusippus (4th c. s.c.E.), Leonardo TarAn, ed. and tr., Speusippus of Athens: A Critical Study with a Collection of the Related Texts and Commentary, Leiden...
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journal articles on: Speusippus  - 11 results

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Reason in Politics: Arendt and Gadamer on the Role of the Eide
Journal article by Lawrence J. Biskowski; Polity, Vol. 31, 1998
Subjects: Arendt, Hannah--Philosophy, Gadamer, Hans-Georg--Philosophy, Plato--Philosophy, Political science--Philosophy, Politics--Philosophy
...essentially anti-political conception of philosophy and reason which has rightly drawn so much criticism.(8) Perhaps as far back as Speusippus and certainly since the Neo-Platonist and Christian commentators, Plato generally has been understood as promulgating a transcendent...
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Pythagoras in the Renaissance: The Case of Marsilio Ficino
Journal article by Christopher S. Celenza; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 52, 1999
Subjects: Ficino, Marsilio--Philosophy, Philosophy, Ancient--Influence
...fathering the theories of later men, including even ones own, on him in the process. This tendency begins in Platonism with Speusippus, if not with Plato himself, and is observable in most later Platonists to a greater or lesser degree, the extremists in this...
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Why Shouldn't the Sophists Charge Fees?
Journal article by James Fredal; Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 38, 2008
Subjects: Cultural values, Fees & charges, Gifts, Ideology, Intellectuals, Teaching methods
...term. Both Pindar and Simonides were known to accept payment for their poetry, while the "philosophers" Zeno, Aristippus, and Speusippus all charged fees for instruction.10 Even when "sophists" did charge fees, the fact could easily be seen as a benefit to democracy...
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Avicenna's Metaphysics in Context
Journal article by Jon Mcginnis; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 124, 2004
Subjects: Avicenna's Metaphysics in Context (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
...Aristotles subsequent critique of this notion in De Caelo I.10-12 and its commentary tradition. There is some evidence that Speusippus and Xenocrates, Platos successors at the Academy, viewed Platos account of the demiurge as standing in a causal, rather than...
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Justin Martyr and the Restoration of Philosophy
Journal article by Arthur J. Droge; Church History, Vol. 56, 1987
Subjects: Church History
...Plato . In this work Numenius maintains that the genuine Platonic doctrine had been abandoned by the early Academics Speusippus, Xenocrates, and Polemo, "for they did not abide by the original tradition he prote diadoche , but partly weakened it...
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Marsilio Ficino Renaissance Man
Magazine article by Valery Rees; History Today, Vol. 49, July 1999
Subjects: Ficino, Marsilio--Influence, Italy--15th century, Philosophers--Influence, Scholars--Influence
...saw me publication of his translations of two Platonic works, Alcinous on Platos Doctrine and the Platonic Definitions of Speusippus. Ten of the dialogues were also ready before Cosimo died as well as Ficinos major commentaries on Platos Philebus (published...


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encyclopedia articles on: Speusippus  - 3 results

 
 
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Speusippus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SPEUSIPPUS spyoosip s, fl. 347 339 b.c., Greek philosopher; disciple and nephew of Plato, whom he succeeded as head of the Academy . Speusippus distinguished 10 grades of being, thereby prefiguring Neoplatonism. He held that the good is not the source of being...
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Xenocrates
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
XENOCRATES zinok r tez, 396 314 b.c., Greek philosopher, b. Chalcedon, successor of Speusippus as head of the Academy . He was a disciple of Plato, whom he accompanied to Sicily in 361 b.c. His ascetic life and noble character...
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Academy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...modified in various ways. These have been frequently divided into three phases: the Old Academy (until c.250 b.c.) of Plato, Speusippus , and Xenocrates ; the Middle Academy (until c.150 b.c.) of Arcesilaus and Carneades , who introduced and maintained...


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