Chapter 10 Alcmaeon and Plato on Soul

In: Studies in Early Greek Philosophy
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Jaap Mansfeld
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Abstract

The rather common view that Alcmaeon influenced Plato’s doctrine of the soul’s self-motion is false. In the doxography self-motion has spread from Xenocrates and Plato to their predecessors Thales, Alcmaeon and Pythagoras.

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