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Alcmaeon and Plato on Soul

Year: 2014

Type: article

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.

Source: Études platoniciennes/Etudes platoniciennes

DOI: 10.4000/etudesplatoniciennes.508

Author: Jaap Mansfeld

Institution: Utrecht University

Language: French

Topic: Classical Philosophy and Thought

Subfield: Philosophy

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W1979911032

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Cites: 16

Cited by: 16

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