The Heirs of Plato : A Study of the Old Academy (347-274 BC)

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The Heirs of Plato : A Study of the Old Academy (347-274 BC)The Heirs of Plato is the first book exclusively devoted to an in depth study of the various directions in philosophy taken by Plato's followers in the first seventy years or so following his death in 347 BC the period generally known as 'The Old Academy'. Speusippus, Xenocrates, and Polemon, the three successive heads of the Academy in this period, though personally devoted to the memory of Plato, were independent philosophers in their own right, and

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