Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Xenocrates, Ariston and Blasius of Parma

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2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic
20768 Like spiderswebs, dialectical arguments are clever but useless [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius]
15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 2. Psuche
5880 Xenocrates held that the soul had no form or substance, but was number [Xenocrates, by Cicero]
17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 1. Physical Mind
16618 Intellectual and moral states, and even the soul itself, depend on prime matter for their existence [Blasius, by Pasnau]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / f. The Mean
3049 The chief good is indifference to what lies midway between virtue and vice [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius]
23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 1. Deontology
3549 Ariston says rules are useless for the virtuous and the non-virtuous [Ariston, by Annas]