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  • Formaat: Hardback, 216 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, kaal: 580 g, 1 Tables, black and white
  • Sari: Issues in Ancient Philosophy
  • Ilmumisaeg: 25-Mar-2025
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 103287418X
  • ISBN-13: 9781032874180
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 216 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, kaal: 580 g, 1 Tables, black and white
  • Sari: Issues in Ancient Philosophy
  • Ilmumisaeg: 25-Mar-2025
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 103287418X
  • ISBN-13: 9781032874180
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This volume, the first devoted specifically to Speusippus in English, offers a new picture of Speusippus’ philosophy via an in-depth analysis of the testimonia preserved by Aristotle.

The book develops a new methodology for understanding the evidence concerning authors of the Early Academy, Speusippus in particular, providing a fresh assessment of the initial phase of Platonism, which calls into question the long-held view that Speusippus was a distinct outlier among Platonists. By reconstructing discussions within the Academy, looking at Aristotle especially, we can better understand the presence of Speusippus’ doctrinal deviation from or preservation of Plato’s doctrine as the effort of a genuine Platonist – the first – to re-shape his Platonic credentials in the backdrop of Aristotle’s critiques. In offering a new reconstruction of the philosophical views of Speusippus, the book provides new points of departure for research on the Early Academy and challenges previous ideas regarding the early development of Platonism.

Speusippus: A Forgotten Voice of Platonism is of interest to students and scholars of Speusippus, as well as those working on Platonism, the Academy, and ancient philosophy more broadly.



This volume, the first devoted specifically to Speusippus in English, offers a new picture of Speusippus’ philosophy via an in-depth analysis of the testimonia preserved by Aristotle, providing new points of departure for research on the Early Academy and challenging previous ideas regarding the early development of Platonism.

Acknowledgements x Introduction 1 Speusippus: a riddle yet to be solved
1 The lack of a global picture 3 The status quaestionis: the need for a
different methodological approach 6 A novel understanding of Speusippus
Platonic inheritance 15 Note of clarification 17 Aristotelian testimonia
analysed 17 Exclusion of commentators on Aristotles text 17 Exclusion of
other early witnesses 17 Aristotelian testimonia excluded from consideration
19 Inclusion of other authors: Appendix on Athenaeus 20 I Speusippus
philosophy: The general framework and the rejection of Forms 28 Aristotles
list of 29 Primary principles 34 Other principles? 35 The mathematical
realm 36 The soul 36 The sensibles 37 The episodicity of the world 38 The
rejection of Forms 44 Speusippus ontology: preliminary conclusions 46 II The
mathematical realm 58 The mathematical realm: a synoptic view of Aristotles
testimonia 60 Separated . . . from what? 62 What is a mathematical number?
Number 10 as a special ordinary number 65 Number 10 and the properties that
are shared with other numbers 66 Number 10 and its peculiar properties 69
Numbers are from the principles 73 Principles 75 A short
digression about the material principle 78 Principles 81 III The
principles 95 What is most beautiful and noble is not : an internal
assessment of Aristotles testimony 96 External assessment of Speusippus
premises 99 Premise (i): what is most beautiful and noble is not in the
principle/in the beginning ( ) 100
Premise (ii): principles (of plants and animals) are causes (
) 102 Premise (iii): beauty and
completeness are in the things that come from the principles (
) 103 The effectiveness of Aristotles rejection:
preliminary conclusions 103 Another discussion concerning the principles 105
Pushing our conclusions further? Generalising the findings 109 IV Speusippus
ethical doctrine 119 EN VII: Speusippus rebuttal of Eudoxus argument from
contraries 122 EN X: another version of Speusippus rebuttal? 124 Clements
testimony 131 Theophrastus testimony 136 Challenges to the standard account
142 A different account? Some conclusions about Speusippus ethical stances
145 Conclusions 164 Appendix 168 Bibliography 177 Index locorum 191 Index
nominum 211 Index rerum 213
Giulia De Cesaris is a Marie Curie fellow at the University of Turin and a former FWO postdoctoral fellow at KU Leuven. She completed her PhD in classics at Durham University in 2020. Her research focuses on the history of Platonism, particularly the Early Academy.