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Xenokrates – Tradition oder Innovation?

Published/Copyright: March 10, 2008
Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie
From the journal Volume 89 Issue 3

Abstract

This work throws a new light on Xenocrates, the third leader of the Academy, who is considered in the existing research as merely a derivative doctrinaire. Dillon and Krämer have shown that Xenocrates is a link between Plato and Aristotle. Xenocrates' first principle, the Monas, is trancendent and a Nus with the Ideas as moments in it. It is illustrated here that Xenocrates knew two priciples, the Monas and the indefinite duality. The latter, however, is a result of the former. This means Xenocrates taught a monism which was not independent from that of Plato and other members of the Academy. The source for this demonstration is Sextus Empiricus.

Published Online: 2008-03-10
Published in Print: 2007-11-20

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Articles in the same Issue

  1. Some Remarks about a Meeting between Socrates and an Indian (Aristoxenus' fragment 53)
  2. Leibniz on Spermatozoa and Immortality
  3. Hume on Religious Affect
  4. Xenokrates – Tradition oder Innovation?
  5. Rezensionen
  6. Liste eingesandter Bücher (Stand 15. 08. 2007)
https://doi.org/10.1515/AGPH.2007.015

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Some Remarks about a Meeting between Socrates and an Indian (Aristoxenus' fragment 53)
  2. Leibniz on Spermatozoa and Immortality
  3. Hume on Religious Affect
  4. Xenokrates – Tradition oder Innovation?
  5. Rezensionen
  6. Liste eingesandter Bücher (Stand 15. 08. 2007)
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