Nicomachean Ethics · Character
Speusippus
Plato's nephew and successor, cited in ethical debates.
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First appearance: book i
Speusippus's tie to Plato is one of the pressures that moves Nicomachean Ethics—worth meeting in the text, not only on a cast list.
Mentioned as following the Pythagorean placement of the one on the same side as good things.
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With Plato (family): Speusippus was Plato's nephew and successor as head of the Academy. In Critique of the Universal Good: Mentioned as following the Pythagorean placement of the one on the same side as good things.
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