XENOCRATES

zĭnŏkˈrətēz, 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 greatly influenced his pupils. He was the first to divide philosophy into dialectic (or logic), physics, and ethics, the latter two being his principal themes. He held that mathematical objects and the Platonic Ideas are both substances, and both identical, causing Aristotle to say of him that he "made ideal and mathematical number the same." His Platonic ethics taught that virtue produces happiness, although external goods can contribute. Only fragments of his work survive.

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...moving itself, which is redundant. Xenocrates would be confined to defining the soul...shall see, he does not want to do. 24 Xenocrates, as we shall see (below, pp. 150...enough to compete (unsuccessfully) with Xenocrates for the headship of the school in 339...
...oJaic36q) line. And before us also Xenocrates said so, calling such a line an indivisible...is indivisible. But it is clear that Xenocrates thought one must call line the essential...should infer, then, that in citing Xenocrates in favor of his interpretation of the...
...Categories (cf. Xenocr. frg. 12). Xenocrates extensive work on ethics may have influenced Stoicism. In Xenocrates metaphysical system (frg. 34=Aristot...and Speusippus. The ideas-which Xenocrates defined as eternal models for natural...
...late Greek artistcritics, Lysippus and Xenocrates of Sicyon were sculptors, while Apelles...History contain much of the criticism of Xenocrates, which was based on his study of Greek...4th centuries B.C. The criticism of Xenocrates differs from that of his predecessors...
...we cannot help but scorn its creator." XENOCRATES OF ATHENS Given these circumstances, how...points toward one clearly major figure, Xenocrates of Athens 396-314 b.c. . 4 Xenocrates, a sculptor who studied with a pupil of...
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...and of these, it is the academies of Xenocrates and Ammonius, the first and the fourth...follow in the footsteps therefore of Xenocrates and Ammonius, and do not deny that...introduces the term in a discussion of Xenocrates. 19 Iamblichus effected this new interpretation...
...of Animals), a genre initiated by Xenocrates of Aphrodisias quoted above. It was...to ingest it with lukewarm water." Xenocrates of Aphrodisias (c. A.D. 70...literature, and is possibly a corruption of Xenocrates of Aphrodisias (1st cent.), as suggested...
...proposed in the Ancient Academy, especially by Speusippus and Xenocrates, who served as sources for Aristotles depictions of the Ideas...arguably attributed problems to Plato mediated by explanations of Xenocrates (pp. 168, 164). F. Fronterotta gathers Aristotles pertinent...
...project. This reading of the Timaeus goes back to the early Academy. The evidence is frustratingly scanty, but it seems that Xenocrates and Polemo, respectively the second and third heads of the Academy after Plato, played a crucial role in passing this reading...
...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 temporal...
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...trumpets, Damon who revived drunkards, Thephrast who reclaimed his right mind through music, and Thaies who used the harp and Xenocrates who used the organ to cure mental conditions. No. 14 is on a similar theme. Some that report great Alexanders life, They...


 

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XENOCRATES zinok r tez, 396 314 b.c., Greek philosopher, b. Chalcedon, successor of Speusippus as head of the Academy . He was a disciple...
...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 skepticism as being...


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