# Xenocrates

> He ran Plato's Academy for a quarter-century and tried to sharpen the master's metaphysics with math—collapsing the gap between Ideas and numbers, populating the cosmos with daemons, and calling the soul a self-moving number.

*4th-century BC Greek philosopher, mathematician and scholarch*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/xenocrates

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** Turkey
- **Born:** -396
- **Died:** -314
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Xenocrates of Chalcedon took the helm of the Platonic Academy around 339/8 BC and held it until his death in 314/3. Where Plato had kept mathematical objects and eternal Forms distinct, Xenocrates merged them: the Ideas were numbers, the soul itself a number that moved. He carved reality into three tiers—the sensible world, the intelligible realm, and a hybrid third—each accessed by sense, intellect, or opinion. Unity and duality he named gods ruling the universe; between the divine and mortal he placed daemonical powers, which were really just states of the soul. In ethics he granted that virtue alone produces happiness, but allowed that external goods—health, wealth—could help virtue do its work. He spent twenty-five years trying to give Plato's vision harder edges, and left it stranger.

## Fame
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## Topics
#Academics, #Academic, #Philosophy, #Mathematics, #Literature, #Ancient History

## Sources
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214121)
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenocrates)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Xenocrates)
- [Ksenokrates (Kalkedonlu)](https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ksenokrates_(Kalkedonlu))
- [Xenòcrates de Calcedònia](https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xen%C3%B2crates_de_Calced%C3%B2nia)
- [Senocrati](https://co.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senocrati)
- [Xenokratés](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenokrat%C3%A9s)
- [Xenokrates](https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenokrates)
- [Xenokrates](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenokrates)
- [Ξενοκράτης](https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9E%CE%B5%CE%BD%CE%BF%CE%BA%CF%81%CE%AC%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82)
- [Ksenokrato](https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ksenokrato)
- [Jenócrates](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jen%C3%B3crates)
- [Xenokrates](https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenokrates)
- [Xenokrates](https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenokrates)
- [گزنوکراتس](https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AF%D8%B2%D9%86%D9%88%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B3)
- [Ksenokrates](https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ksenokrates)
- [Xénocrate](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/X%C3%A9nocrate)
- [Seanócraitéas](https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean%C3%B3crait%C3%A9as)
- [Xenócrates de Calcedonia](https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xen%C3%B3crates_de_Calcedonia)
- [קסנוקרטס](https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%A1%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%A7%D7%A8%D7%98%D7%A1)
- [Xenokratész](https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenokrat%C3%A9sz)
- [Xenokrates](https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenokrates)
- [Xenókrates](https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xen%C3%B3krates)
- [Senocrate](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senocrate)
- [クセノクラテス](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%82%BB%E3%83%8E%E3%82%AF%E3%83%A9%E3%83%86%E3%82%B9)
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