Lore And Science In Ancient Pythagoreanism

Author : Walter Burkert
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0674539184

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Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism by Walter Burkert Pdf

For this first English edition of his distinguished study of Pythagoreanism, Weisheit und Wissenschajt: Studien zu Pythagoras, Philolaos, und Platon, Walter Burkert has carefully revised text and notes, taking account of additional literature on the subject which appeared between 1962 and 1969. By a thorough critical sifting of all the available evidence, the author lays a new foundation for the understanding of ancient Pythagoreanism and in particular of the relationship within it of "lore" and "science." He shows that in the twilight zone when the Greeks were discovering the rational interpretation of the world and quantitative natural science, Pythagoras represented not the origin of the new, but the survival or revival of ancient, pre-scientific lore or wisdom, based on superhuman authority and expressed in ritual obligation.

Author : Walter Burkert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1403565457

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Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism by Walter Burkert Pdf

Author : Walter BURKERT
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0674539184

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Weisheit und Wissenschaft: Studien zu Pythagoras, Philolaos und Platon. Lore and science in ancient Pythagoreanism ... Translated by Edwin L. Minar, Jr by Walter BURKERT Pdf

Author : Leonid Zhmud
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199289318

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Pythagoras and the Early Pythagoreans by Leonid Zhmud Pdf

In ancient tradition, Pythagoras emerges as a wise teacher, an outstanding mathematician, an influential politician, and as a religious and ethical reformer. This volume offers a comprehensive study of Pythagoras, Pythagoreanism, and the early Pythagoreans through an analysis of the many representations of the individual and his followers.

Author : Charles H. Kahn
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001-09-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781603846820

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Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans by Charles H. Kahn Pdf

A fascinating portrait of the Pythagorean tradition, including a substantial account of the Neo-Pythagorean revival, and ending with Johannes Kepler on the threshold of modernism.

Author : Irene Caiazzo,Constantinos Macris,Aurélien Robert
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004499461

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Brill's Companion to the Reception of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by Irene Caiazzo,Constantinos Macris,Aurélien Robert Pdf

For the first time, the reader can have a synoptic view of the reception of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, East and West, in a multicultural perspective. All the major themes of Pythagoreanism are addressed, from mathematics, number philosophy and metaphysics to ethics and religious thought.

Author : Gabriele Cornelli,Richard McKirahan,Constantinos Macris
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110318500

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On Pythagoreanism by Gabriele Cornelli,Richard McKirahan,Constantinos Macris Pdf

The purpose of the conference “On Pythagoreanism”, held in Brasilia in 2011, was to bring together leading scholars from all over the world to define the status quaestionis for the ever-increasing interest and research on Pythagoreanism in the 21st century. The papers included in this volume exemplify the variety of topics and approaches now being used to understand the polyhedral image of one of the most fascinating and long-lasting intellectual phenomena in Western history. Cornelli’s paper opens the volume by charting the course of Pythagorean studies over the past two centuries. The remaining contributions range chronologically from Pythagoras and the early Pythagoreans of the archaic period (6th-5th centuries BCE) through the classical, hellenistic and late antique periods, to the eighteenth century. Thematically they treat the connections of Pythagoreanism with Orphism and religion, with mathematics, metaphysics and epistemology and with politics and the Pythagorean way of life.

Author : Patricia Curd,Daniel W. Graham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199722440

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The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy by Patricia Curd,Daniel W. Graham Pdf

In the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. a new kind of thinker appeared in Greek city-states, dedicated to finding the origins of the world and everything in it, using observation and reason rather than tradition and myth. We call these thinkers Presocratic philosophers, and recognize them as the first philosophers of the Western tradition, as well as the originators of scientific thinking. New textual discoveries and new approaches make a reconsideration of the Presocratics at the beginning of the twenty-first century especially timely. This handbook brings together leading international scholars to study the diverse figures, movements, and approaches that constitute Presocratic philosophy. More than a survey of scholarship, this study presents new interpretations and evaluations of the Presocratics' accomplishments, from Thales to the sophists, from theology to science, and from pre-philosophical background to their influence on later thinkers. Many positions presented here challenge accepted wisdom and offer alternative accounts of Presocratic theories. This handbook includes chapters on the Milesians (Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes), Xenophanes, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Empedocles, the Pythagoreans, the atomists, and the sophists. Special studies are devoted to the sources of Presocratic philosophy, oriental influences, Hippocratic medicine, cosmology, explanation, epistemology, theology, and the reception of Presocratic thought in Aristotle and other ancient authors.

Author : Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie,David Fideler
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1987-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781609253943

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The Pythagorean Sourcebook and Library by Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie,David Fideler Pdf

This anthology, the largest collection of Pythagorean writings ever to appear in English, contains the four ancient biographies of Pythagoras and over 25 Pythagorean and Neopythagorean writings from the Classical and Hellenistic periods. The material of this book is indispensable for anyone who wishes to understand the real spiritual roots of Western civilization.

Author : Arne Hessenbruch
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 188496429X

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Reader's Guide to the History of Science by Arne Hessenbruch Pdf

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Phillip Sidney Horky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190465704

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Plato and Pythagoreanism by Phillip Sidney Horky Pdf

Was Plato a Pythagorean? Plato's students and earliest critics thought so, but scholars since the nineteenth century have been more skeptical. With this probing study, Phillip Sidney Horky argues that a specific type of Pythagorean philosophy, called mathematical Pythagoreanism, exercised a decisive influence on fundamental aspects of Plato's philosophy. The progenitor of mathematical Pythagoreanism was the infamous Pythagorean heretic and political revolutionary Hippasus of Metapontum, a student of Pythagoras who is credited with experiments in harmonics that led to innovations in mathematics. The innovations of Hippasus and other mathematical Pythagoreans, including Empedocles of Agrigentum, Epicharmus of Syracuse, Philolaus of Croton, and Archytas of Tarentum, presented philosophers like Plato with novel ways to reconcile empirical knowledge with abstract mathematical theories. Plato and Pythagoreanism demonstrates how mathematical Pythagoreanism established many of the fundamental philosophical questions Plato dealt with in his central dialogues, including Cratylus, Phaedo, Republic, Timaeus, and Philebus. In the process, it also illuminates the historical significance of the mathematical Pythagoreans, a group whose influence on the development of philosophical and scientific methods has been obscured since late antiquity. The picture that results is one in which Plato inherits mathematical Pythagorean method only to transform it into a powerful philosophical argument about the essential relationships between the cosmos and the human being.

Author : Dominic J. O'Meara
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1989-04-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191519802

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Pythagoras Revived by Dominic J. O'Meara Pdf

The Pythagorean idea that number is the key to understanding reality inspired Neoplatonist philosophers in the fourth and fifth centuries to develop theories in physics and metaphysics based on mathematical models. The theories produced by this revived interest in Pythagoreanism were to become influential in medieval and early modern philosophy, and this book makes use of some newly-discovered evidence to examine for the first time the development of those theories.

Author : Christoph Riedweg
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780801464843

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Pythagoras by Christoph Riedweg Pdf

One of the most important mathematical theorems is named after Pythagoras of Samos, but this semi-mythical Greek sage has more to offer than formulas. He is said to have discovered the numerical nature of the basic consonances and transposed the musical proportions to the cosmos, postulating a "harmony of the spheres." He may have coined the words "cosmos" and "philosophy." He is also believed to have taught the doctrine of transmigration of souls and therefore to have advised a vegetarian diet. Ancient legends have Pythagoras conversing with dogs, bears, and bulls. A distinctly Pythagorean way of life, including detailed ritual regulations, was observed by his disciples, who were organized as a secret society. Later, Pythagorean and Platonic teachings became fused. In this Platonized form, Pythagoreanism has remained influential through medieval Christianity and the Renaissance down to the present. Christoph Riedweg's book is an engaging introduction to the fundamental contributions of Pythagoras to the establishment of European culture. To penetrate the intricate maze of lore and ascertain what history can tell us about the philosopher, Riedweg not only examines the written record but also considers Pythagoras within the cultural, intellectual, and spiritual context of his times. The result is a vivid overview of the life and teachings of a crucial Greek thinker and his most important followers.

Author : Johan C. Thom
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004295841

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The Pythagorean Golden Verses by Johan C. Thom Pdf

This book is a commentary on the Pythagorean Golden Verses, a neglected, but once very popular poem of the Hellenistic period. The goal of the poem is to introduce its readers to the basic moral, religious and philosophical doctrines of the Pythagorean sect and to guide them to spiritual maturity. The first part of the book treats still unresolved introductory matters such as the date, authorship, genre, composition, and the historical locus of the poem. This is followed by a text with translation on facing pages, and a detailed commentary containing a wealth of comparative material from the Greco-Roman period, including early Christianity and Judaism. Particularly valuable are the extensive discussions of the moral topoi and religious themes encountered in the poem.

Author : Carl A. Huffman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1316648478

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A History of Pythagoreanism by Carl A. Huffman Pdf

This is a comprehensive, authoritative and innovative account of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism, one of the most enigmatic and influential philosophies in the West. In twenty-one chapters covering a timespan from the sixth century BC to the seventeenth century AD, leading scholars construct a number of different images of Pythagoras and his community, assessing current scholarship and offering new answers to central problems. Chapters are devoted to the early Pythagoreans, and the full breadth of Pythagorean thought is explored including politics, religion, music theory, science, mathematics and magic. Separate chapters consider Pythagoreanism in Plato, Aristotle, the Peripatetics and the later Academic tradition, while others describe Pythagoreanism in the historical tradition, in Rome and in the pseudo-Pythagorean writings. The three great lives of Pythagoras by Diogenes Laertius, Porphyry and Iamblichus are also discussed in detail, as is the significance of Pythagoras for the Middle Ages and Renaissance.