Xenokrates Of Sicyon
Xenocrates is a Chalcedon (4th century BC) philosopher. Xenocrates or Xenokrates is also the name of: * Xenokrates of Sicyon (3rd century BC), writer and sculptor *Xenocrates of Aphrodisias Xenocrates ( el, Ξενοκράτης; fl. 1st century) a Greek physician of Aphrodisias in Cilicia, who must have lived about the middle of the 1st century, as he was probably a contemporary of Andromachus the Younger. Galen says that he lived in ...

Xenocrates
Xenocrates (; el, Ξενοκράτης; c. 396/5314/3 BC) of Chalcedon was a Greek philosopher, mathematician, and leader (scholarch) of the Platonic Academy from 339/8 to 314/3 BC. His teachings followed those of Plato, which he attempted to define more closely, often with mathematical elements. He distinguished three forms of being: the sensible, the intelligible, and a third compounded of the two, to which correspond respectively, sense, intellect and opinion. He considered unity and duality to be gods which rule the universe, and the soul a self-moving number. God pervades all things, and there are daemonical powers, intermediate between the divine and the mortal, which consist in conditions of the soul. He held that mathematical objects and the Platonic Ideas are identical, unlike Plato who distinguished them. In ethics, he taught that virtue produces happiness, but external goods can minister to it and enable it to effect its purpose. Life Xenocrates was a native of C ...
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Xenokrates Of Sicyon
Xenocrates is a Chalcedon (4th century BC) philosopher. Xenocrates or Xenokrates is also the name of: * Xenokrates of Sicyon (3rd century BC), writer and sculptor *Xenocrates of Aphrodisias Xenocrates ( el, Ξενοκράτης; fl. 1st century) a Greek physician of Aphrodisias in Cilicia, who must have lived about the middle of the 1st century, as he was probably a contemporary of Andromachus the Younger. Galen says that he lived in ...