The Riddle of the Early Academy

Academy Aristotle's Metaphysics Aristoxenus ascribes to Plato ascription assert assumed Berlin Burnet Caelo Cherniss concerning Crantor derived diaeresis dialogues differentiae Diogenes Laertius doctrine of ideas dyad element entities Epistle Eudoxus existence F. M. Cornford fact frag Friedländer genus Heinze higher critics hypothesis Ibid idea of animal idea of number ideal numbers ideas and numbers idem identical identification of ideas implies indivisible interpretation Leipzig material principle mathematical numbers means meant Metaphysics 1091 method misinterpretation motion nature Nicomachean Ethics nonbeing objects oral doctrine Parmenides participant passage Phaedo phenomenal Philebus philosophy Physics Plato's doctrine Plato's lecture Plato's theory Platonists Plutarch Proclus pupils reason reference refute rejected relation Republic Robin Ross says self-moving sensibles Simplicius Socrates Sophist soul species specific ideas Speusippus and Xenocrates Stenzel substrate T. L. Heath Theophrastus Théorie platonicienne theory of idea-numbers theory of ideas thing Timaeus tion totle ultimate principles units unity writings Zeller καὶ