person
Xenocrates
Xenocrates of Chalcedon (c. 396-314 BC), third head of Plato's Academy. Seneca couples him with Speusippus as holding that virtue alone can make one happy, while denying that the honorable is the sole good.
Reading notes
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §85.18 Xenocrates
Xenocrates of Chalcedon (c. 396-314 BC), third head of Plato's Academy; cited with Speusippus for holding that virtue alone suffices for happiness yet is not the sole good.