Xenocrates
4th-century BC Greek philosopher, mathematician and scholarch
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TurkeyHe 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.
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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 vir…
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