# Speusippus — Nicomachean Ethics character guide

> Speusippus in Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0003-book-i

## Who they are

Plato's nephew and successor, cited in ethical debates.

## Relationships

### [Plato](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nicomachean_ethics_se/characters/plato)

_family_

Speusippus was Plato's nephew and successor as head of the Academy.

## In the story

### [Critique of the Universal Good](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nicomachean_ethics_se/chapters/vi)

Mentioned as following the Pythagorean placement of the one on the same side as good things.

### [Book VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nicomachean_ethics_se/chapters/book-vii)

Mentioned as an opponent who argued that pleasure is not good by analogy of the greater and the less.

### [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nicomachean_ethics_se/chapters/xiii)

Mentioned as attempting to refute the argument that pleasure is good by analogy of the greater opposed to the equal and less.

### [Book X: Pleasure and the Contemplative Life](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nicomachean_ethics_se/chapters/book-x)

Represented the view that pleasure is bad; Aristotle critiques this position.

### [Endnotes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nicomachean_ethics_se/chapters/endnotes)

Referenced in a note on the nature of pleasure and pain, where his view is contrasted with Aristotle's.

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