Xenocrates and Metaphysics
The historian known as Plutarch documented that Xenocrates had searched through the chronological order of the Platonic theory to identify the association of imagined sequence. Plutarch also documented that this was important to Xenocrates who also wished to convey Plato’s idea of the construction of the world-soul but that had to wait until Crantor’s time. Plutarch does not say anything else but does agree with Xenocrates that the soul will move within itself.
Xenocrates determined unity and dualities to be deities and that unity was the first male figure on earth and that he now presided in the heavens. Dualities was determined to be the female and she was the mother to all of the gods. She is also thought to be the soul of the universe and rules over all things on the earth that sits below the heavens.
Xenocrates was one of many followers of Plato’s work and so if he were thinking along with the Platonic theory, he most likely believed that the world-soul was the first actual duality. This main concept being that there is much that is definite that pertains to material and changeable but not reaching beyond it. This he called as the highest level of the soul, following his own theory of self-moving souls. It’s not known how much trust the world-soul Zeus had in Xenocrates or to what degree that trust was held. The world-soul is then shown with a spiritual power and the universe showing that Olympic gods had been placed inside the planets, the Sun, and the Moon.
However, daemonical creatures, that which is caught between being a god and being men, are compared to them as being the equilateral and scalene triangles to the isosceles triangle. The daemonical creatures however, had powers that were connected to nature; and that is when the battle between good and evil began. Those that should meet a good daemonical creature would be happy and those that met a bad daemonical creature, it would ruin them.
Xenocrates’ own explanations of his assumptions have never been known. He wrote many books on the gods and their distinct elements however, no one really knows as these writings did not survive. It can be said that there was one basic element to Xenocrates theories and that was that all forms of existence would be soaked with divine power but as the person becomes more perishable and individual, that power weakens significantly.