Xenocrates
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Xenocrates
Xenocrates was the
third head of the Athenian Academy, after Plato and Speusippus. An important
precursor for the later Platonists, he was famous for his division of
philosophy into the three branches of physics, ethics and logic, from
which it is still recovering. Not one word that the man wrote has survived,
to the great pleasure of philosophers who have, at any rate, got far
too much to read already.
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