Stoicism - A School Of Thought He was apparently well versed in Platonic thought, for he had studied at Plato sAcademy both with xenocrates of chalcedon and with Polemon of Athens, http://www.omhros.gr/Kat/History/Rel/Stoicism.htm
Extractions: A school of thought that flourished in Greek and Roman antiquity. It was one of the loftiest and most sublime philosophies in the record of Western civilization. In urging participation in the affairs of man, Stoics have always believed that the goal of all inquiry is to provide man with a mode of conduct characterized by tranquillity of mind and certainty of moral worth. For the early Stoic philosopher, as for all the post-Aristotelian schools, knowledge and its pursuit are no longer held to be ends in themselves. The Hellenistic Age was a time of transition, and the Stoic philosopher was perhaps its most influential spokesman. A new culture was in the making. The heritage of an earlier period, with Athens as its intellectual leader, was to continue, but to undergo many changes. If, as with Socrates , to know is to know oneself, rationality as the sole means by which something outside of the self might be achieved may be said to be the hallmark of Stoic belief. As a Hellenistic philosophy, Stoicism presented an ars vitae
Plato The next scholarch was xenocrates of chalcedon (339314) who studied demonology (Platonictheology). The third scholarch after Plato was Polemon of Athens http://www.omhros.gr/Kat/History/Txt/Cl/Plato/Plato.htm
Extractions: (427-347 B.C.) The great Greek philosopher Plato was most likely born in Athens to an aristocratic family, though little is known of his early life. He was a large, athletic, intelligent man, who could have succeeded in any number of callings but he became a disciple of the great teacher, Socrates, and devoted himself chiefly to a life of the mind. He travelled widely, then sometime before 368 B.C. founded his own school, the Academy, at Athens, where he remained for the rest of his life, apart from a few visits to Syracuse. Plato's life of thought was captured in a series of dialogues, most of them spotlighting his master Socrates. Readers wishing to jump into the Dialogues would do well to begin with the Apology , in which Socrates defends himself against the charges of atheism and teaching controversial ideas to the youth of Athens. The trial, or course, ended unsuccessfully for Socrates, and he was sentenced to death. In Crito , Socrates explains his reasons for refusing to escape from prison. Phaedo contains a discussion of immortality, but ends with Socrates' execution and is one of the most moving short pieces of narrative ever written. Next, one should read the early dialogues. The main character is Socrates, and the main subject is the definition of moral concepts (e.g, temperance in
History Of Astronomy: Persons (X) xenocrates of chalcedon (396 BC 314 BC). Short biography and references (MacTutorHist. Math.) Very short biography. Xenophanes of Colophon (c. http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/persons/pers_x.html
The Mystery Of The Trinity-Part 5 339 bc), xenocrates of chalcedon (until ca. 314 bc), Polemon of Athens (until ca.275 bc), and Crates of Athens (until ca. 168 bc). http://www.cbcg.org/mystery_trinity5.htm
Extractions: Christian Biblical Church of God Biblical Truth Ministries the truth shall set you free. Order Books Oline Website Index Platos Successors The Older Academy Circa 347-325 B.C. Platos successors in leading the Academy (par.61) are his nephew Speusippus (until ca. 339 b.c.), Xenocrates of Chalcedon (until ca. 314 b.c.), Polemon of Athens (until ca. 275 b.c.), and Crates of Athens (until ca. 168 b.c.). Relying upon Platos unwritten doctrines, Speusippus develops a mathematical ontology. Its principles are the One that stands beyond being and the Many that populate the beings [i.e., philosophic Monism] (Ricken, Philosophy of the Ancients , p. 119). Sound familiar? There is one God, and that one God is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. They are distinct, but not separate.... Therefore, God is everything we can conceive of and more! (Joseph W. Tkach Sr., July 27, 1993.) The realms of being are the mathematical numbers, the mathematical shapes, the soul (World-Soul), and the perceivable bodies. They are created when the One determines and limits the Many. The One and the Many are to be seen as analogous but different principles on each level. Speusippus ordered the entire reality according to the relation of genus and species, applying Platos method of collect and division (par. 96f) consistently (Ricken, Philosophy of the Ancients
Greek Philosophy these were Speusippus (son of Plato s sister), who succeeded him as the headof the school (till 339 BCE), and xenocrates of chalcedon (till 314 BCE). http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/greek/greek_philosophy.html
Xenocrates xenocrates of chalcedon. Born xenocrates of chalcedon was a student of Platowho entered the Academy in Athens in about 376 BC. In http://202.38.126.65/mirror/www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/
Quantum Connections - Internet Solutions Web Sites. Ancient Greek Scientists xenocrates of chalcedon Notes on his life andmathematical achievements. url www.tmth.edu.gr/en/aet/1/98.html. http://www.qtm.net/cgi-bin/odp/index.cgi?base=/Society/Philosophy/Philosophers/X
Ancient Quotes And Quoations itself. xenocrates of chalcedon 396314 BC, Greek Philosopher I have oftenrepented speaking, but never of holding my tongue. Zacharia http://www.stevenredhead.com/quotes/ancient/Vinet~Xenocrates.html
Grains Of Sand: On Being Wise And Being Quiet I have often repented of speaking, said xenocrates of chalcedon, but never ofholding my tongue. Outstandingly gabby people rarely strike one as wise. http://jebin08.blogspot.com/2005/02/on-being-wise-and-being-quiet.html
Extractions: If you looked for distinguishing features among those regarded as wise... two would stand out. One is experience... The other is caution with words: a ... commitment to thinking before you offer firm views. "I have often repented of speaking," said Xenocrates of Chalcedon, "but never of holding my tongue." Outstandingly gabby people rarely strike one as wise. "How can he get wisdom," asks the Book of Ecclesiasticus [sic] bitingly, "if his talk is of bullocks?".
Genre, Historicity, Authorship, And Date Of Acts His disciples were Speiusippus of Athens, xenocrates of chalcedon, Aristotle ofStagira. . . ., and many others, among them two women, Lastheneia of http://www.christianorigins.com/acts.html
Philosophy - Plato: Overview first of these were Speusippus (son of Plato s sister), who succeeded him asthe head of the school (till 339), and xenocrates of chalcedon (till 314). http://www.archaeonia.com/philosophy/plato/main.htm
Extractions: PLATO (428-348 B.C.) P lato of Athens (428-348), also combined the genius of Socrates with all the principles established by earlier philosophers, in so far as they had been legitimate, and developed the whole of this material into the unity of a comprehensive system. The groundwork of Plato's scheme, though nowhere expressly stated by him, is the threefold division of philosophy into dialectic ethics , and physics ; its central point is the theory of forms or ideas . This theory is a combination of the Eleatic doctrine of the One with Heraclitus's theory of a perpetual flux and with the Socratic method of concepts . The multitude of objects of sense, being involved in perpetual change, are thereby deprived of all genuine existence. The only true being in them is founded upon the ideas, the eternal unchangeable (independent of all that is accidental, and therefore perfect) types, of which the particular objects of sense are imperfect copies . The quantity of the forms is defined by the number of universal concepts which can be derived from the particular objects of sense. The highest idea is that of the Good , which is the ultimate basis of the rest, and the first cause of being and knowledge. Apprehensions derived from the impression of sense can never give us the knowledge of true being i.e. of the forms. It can only be obtained by the
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Peter Fosl's Philosophical Chronology Ecphantus of Syracuse (4th century BCE) Sphettus (fl. early 4th century BCE)xenocrates of chalcedon ( ? c 314 BCE) Demosthenes (383 - 322 BCE) http://homepages.transy.edu/~philosophy/chronology.html
Extractions: s s Big Bang postulated (15-16 billion years ago) Formation of the Earth (c 4,500,000,000 years ago) Precambrian Age (4,000,000,000 - 540,000,000 y.a., origin of life [Archeaozoic era] thought to be 4 billion y.a.) Earliest known life in fossil record (c 3,500,000,000 y.a.) Paleozoic Age (540,000,000 - 200,000,000 y.a.) (insects, chondrichthyes, amphibians, reptiles, plants except angiospermae) Mesozoic Age (200,000,000 - 60, 000,000 y.a.) (bony fish, birds, mammals, angiospermae) Dinosaurs become extinct (c 65,000,000 y.a.) Cenozoic Age begins (60,000,000 y.a.) Australopithecus (2,600,000 y.a.) Pleistocene Era (2,000,000 - 10,000 y.a., development of hominids) Appearance of homo sapiens (c 200,000 BCE) Earliest known artwork (c 29,000 BCE) (Willendorf Venus; painted blocks of La Ferrassie)
Wisdom 2 xenocrates of chalcedon (the original). They sicken of the calm who know the storm.Dorothy Parker. He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another s mishap. http://www.tuvy.com/entertainment/coolquotes/wisdom/wisdom_2.htm
Extractions: Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time a tremendous whack." Winston Churchill Ratio of Americans who die from tobacco-related illnesses each year to the number who are murdered : 17:1 September issue of Harper's Index "War is progress, peace is stagnation." Hegel A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern. Edgar A. Shoaff A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. Winston Churchill An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing. Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil. Ayn Rand Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on. Churchill Conserve energy make love more slowly. Enjoy every minute. There's plenty of time to be dead. He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die. Giacomo Leopardi If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Aristotle Philosophy Plato Alexander Science Aristotelian association with XenocratesAncient philosophers xenocrates of chalcedon ( 396 After the death of Plato ( 346 BCE), Aristotle went with Xenocrates to http://www.economicexpert.com/a/Aristotle.htm
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ClementAlex xenocrates of chalcedon indicates that the planets are seven gods, and that theuniverse. composed of all these, is an eighth. Nor will I pass over those of http://www2.roanoke.edu/religion/Maclean/Relg210/ClementAlex.html
Extractions: Clement of Alexandria, Exhortation the Greeks V-VI Chapter V.-The Opinions of the Philosophers Respecting God. This was also the case with Heraclitus and his followers, who worshipped fire as the first cause; for this fire others named Hephaestus. The Persian Magi, too, and many of the inhabitants of Asia, worshipped fire; and besides them, the Macedonians, as Diogenes relates in the first book of his Persica. Why specify the Sauromatae, who are said by Nymphodorus, in his Barbaric Customs, to pay sacred honours to fire? or the Persians, or the Medes, or the Magi? These, Dino tells us, sacrifice beneath the open sky, regarding fire and water as the only images of the gods. Nor have I failed to reveal their ignorance; for, however much they think to keep clear of error in one form, they slide into it in another. Chapter VI.-By Divine Inspiration Philosophers Sometimes Hit on the Truth. Why so? by Himself, I beseech you! For He can by no means be expressed. Well done, Plato! Thou hast touched on the truth. But do not flag. Undertake with me the inquiry respecting the Good. For into all men whatever, especially those who are occupied with intellectual pursuits, a certain divine effluence has been instilled; wherefore, though reluctantly, they confess that God is one, indestructible, unbegotten, and that somewhere above in the tracts of heaven, in His own peculiar appropriate eminence, whence He surveys all things, He has an existence true and eternal. "Tell me what I am to conceive God to be
Xenocrates - Linix Encyclopedia Xenocrates. xenocrates of chalcedon (396 314 BC) was a Greek philosopher In 339, Aristotle being then in Macedonia, Xenocrates succeeded Speusippus in http://web.linix.ca/pedia/index.php/Xenocrates
Extractions: Xenocrates of Chalcedon 314 BC ) was a Greek philosopher and scholarch or rector of the Academy from to 314 BC Removing to Athens in early youth, he became the pupil of the Socratic Aeschines , but presently joined himself to Plato , whom he attended to Sicily in . Upon his master's death, in company with Aristotle he paid a visit to Hermias at Atarneus . In 339, Aristotle being then in Macedonia , Xenocrates succeeded Speusippus in the presidency of the school, defeating his competitors Menedemus and Heraclides Ponticus by a few votes. On three occasions he was member of an Athenian legation, once to Philip , twice to Antipater Soon after the death of Demosthenes (fl 322), resenting the Macedonian influence then dominant at Athens, Xenocrates declined the citizenship offered to him at the instance of Phocion , and, being unable to pay the tax levied upon resident aliens, was, it is said, sold, or on the point of being sold, into slavery. He died in , and was succeeded as scholarch by Polemon , whom he had reclaimed from a life of profligacy. Besides Polemon, the statesman Phocion Chaeron (tyrant of Pellene ), the Academic
Science In The 19th Century Periodical xenocrates of chalcedon (c. 396c. 313 BC) DSB Search for all references tothis register entry. Xenophanes (c. 580 to 570 BCc. http://www.sciper.org/browse/nam_x.html
Summary Of Pythagorean Theology I: Introduction xenocrates of chalcedon (396314), a later head of Plato s Academy (339-314),explored the hierarchies of the Gods and other Divine Spirits, http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/BA/ETP/I.html
Extractions: A Summary of Pythagorean Theology Part I: Introduction May Hermes, the God of Eloquence, stand by my side to aid me, and the Muses also and Apollo, the Leader of the Muses..., and may They grant that I utter only what the Gods approve that people should say and believe about Them. Julian ( Oration IV History Theogony Triadic Structure History This document presents a summary and synthesis of the theology of Pythagoreanism, a spiritual tradition that has been practiced continuously, in one form or another, for at least twenty-six centuries. But first, a little history. (Note: I will refer to all of the following philosophers and theologians as Pythagoreans or Platonists, which is what they usually called themselves, for the terms "Neo-Pythagorean" and "Neo-Platonist" are modern inventions. This history is of necessity incomplete and superficial.) According to ancient Greek tradition, Pythagoras (572-497 BCE) studied with the Egyptians, Phoenicians, Chaldeans, Brahmans, and Zoroastrians, and was initiated into all their mysteries. He is supposed to have met with Zoroaster (Zarathustra), but, since scholars now believe that Zoroaster probably lived in the second millennium BCE, it is likely that the Greek tradition reflects a meeting between Pythagoras and Zoroastrian Magi. In any case, there are many traces of Zoroastrianism in Pythagorean doctrine. In particular, there are similarities between the central Duality of Pythagoreanism and the dual Gods of Zoroaster (Ahura-Mazda and Ahriman). However, there are also connections to
