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- He rejected Plato's Theory of Forms, and whereas Plato had identified the Good with the ultimate principle, Speusippus maintained that the Good was merely secondary. He also argued that it is impossible to have satisfactory knowledge of any thing without knowing all the differences by which it is separated from everything else.
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May 22, 2003 · In the quotation Speusippus tells us that the number 10 is ‘perfect’ or ‘complete’. The explanation in Euclid vii Def. 23 (Heiberg/Stamatis 1970 p. 105; Def. 22 in Heath 1926 p. 278) for the phrase ‘perfect number’ is ‘number that is the sum of its proper divisors’.
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Speusippus rejected Plato's Theory of Forms; whereas Plato distinguished between ideal numbers (i.e. the Platonic Forms of numbers) and mathematical numbers, Speusippus rejected the ideal numbers, and consequently the ideas.
Jul 19, 1998 · Speusippus was a Greek philosopher who became head, or scholarch, of the Greek Academy after the death in 347 bc of Plato, who had founded it in 387. A nephew and disciple of Plato, Speusippus accompanied him on his journey to Sicily in 361.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Mar 3, 2005 · He does so by comparing and contrasting this letter with the five others attributed to Plato (a text and translation of them are given in Appendix II, pp. 175-177), as well as by arguments elsewhere in the book that Speusippus quoted from Plato’s letter to Philip in sec. 12 of his letter.
- Ian Worthington
SPEUSIPPUS (b. Athens, ca. 408 b.c.; d. Athens, 339 b.c.) philosophy. Speusippus’ father was Eurymedon, and his mother was Plato’s sister Potone. A member of the Academy, he became its head after Plato’s death. He was a friend of Dion and supported his political plans.
Speusippus was innovative in his understanding of Platonic cosmology, as presented in the Timaeus, although his innovations, e.g. the notion of World‐Soul, did not make their mark until the Neopythagoreanism of the first two centuries A.D.
In fact, Speusippus did apparently find these two principles plausible enough that one of them he adopted outright (the One) and the other he modified slightly (choosing Plurality rather than the Dyad), but it was to no avail.
