On Pythagoreanism

Author : Gabriele Cornelli,Richard McKirahan,Constantinos Macris
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : Charles H. Kahn
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 53,6 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 : Walter Burkert
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : Gabriele Cornelli
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110306507

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In Search of Pythagoreanism by Gabriele Cornelli Pdf

The history of Pythagoreanism is littered with different and incompatible interpretations, to the point that Kahn (1974) suggested that, instead of another thesis on Pythagoreanism, it would be preferable to assess traditions with the aim of producing a good historiographical presentation. This almost fourty-year-old observation by Kahn, directs the author of this book towards a fundamentally historiographical rather than philological brand of work, that is, one neither exclusively devoted to the exegesis of sources such as Philolaus, Archytas or even of one of the Hellenistic Lives nor even to the theoretical approach of one of the themes that received specific contributions from Pythagoreanism, such as mathematics, cosmology, politics or theories of the soul. Instead, this monograph sets out to reconstruct the way in which the tradition established Pythagoreanism’s image, facing one of the central problems that characterizes Pythagoreanism more than other ancient philosophical movements: the drastically shifting terrain of the criticism of the sources. The goal of this historiographical approach is to embrace Pythagoreanism in its entirety, through - and not in spite of - its complex articulation across more than a millennium.

Author : Irene Caiazzo,Constantinos Macris,Aurélien Robert
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 51,7 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 : Phillip Sidney Horky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,6 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 : Carl A. Huffman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 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.

Author : Johan C. Thom
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 54,7 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 : James A. Philip
Publisher : Heritage
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1487580878

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Pythagoras and Early Pythagoreanism by James A. Philip Pdf

Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans of the fifth century are cast by historians of philosophy in four important roles. Professor Philip here examines the evidence for these assertions. As a result, it is argued that substantial modifications must be made of generally accepted views of the role of Pythagoras and early Pythagoreans.

Author : Carl A. Huffman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521415255

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Philolaus of Croton by Carl A. Huffman Pdf

Author : Sarah B. Pomeroy
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421409566

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Pythagorean Women by Sarah B. Pomeroy Pdf

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Abbreviations -- Chronology -- Introduction -- 1 Who Were the Pythagorean Women? -- 2 Wives, Mothers, Sisters, Daughters -- 3 Who Were the Neopythagorean Women Authors? -- 4 Introduction to the Prose Writings of Neopythagorean Women -- 5 The Letters and Treatises of Neopythagorean Women in the East -- 6 The Letters and Treatises of Neopythagorean Women in the West -- 7 The Neopythagorean Women as Philosophers -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Z.

Author : Leonid Zhmud
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191626388

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Pythagoras and the Early Pythagoreans by Leonid Zhmud Pdf

Pythagoras (c. 570 - c. 495 BC), arguably the most influential thinker among the Presocratics, emerges in ancient tradition as a wise teacher, an outstanding mathematician, an influential politician, and as a religious and ethical reformer. He claimed to possess supernatural powers and was the kind of personality who attracted legends. In contrast to his controversial and elusive nature, the early Pythagoreans, such as the doctors Democedes and Alcmaeon, the Olympic victors Milon and Iccus, the botanist Menestor, the natural philosopher Hippon, and the mathematicians Hippasus and Theodorus, all appear in our sources as 'rational' as they can possibly be. It was this 'normality' that ensured the continued existence of Pythagoreanism as a philosophical and scientific school till c. 350 BC. This volume offers a comprehensive study of Pythagoras and the early Pythagoreans through an analysis of the many representations of the Teacher and his followers, allowing the representations to complement and critique each other. Relying predominantly on sources dating back to before 300 BC, Zhmud portrays a more historical picture of Pythagoras, of the society founded by him, and of its religion than is known from the late antique biographies. In chapters devoted to mathematical and natural sciences cultivated by the Pythagoreans and to their philosophies, a critical distinction is made between the theories of individual figures and a generalized 'all-Pythagorean teaching', which is known from Aristotle.

Author : Waclaw Sierpinski
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-10
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780486174839

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Pythagorean Triangles by Waclaw Sierpinski Pdf

This classic text, written by a distinguished mathematician and teacher, focuses on a fundamental theory of geometry. Topics include all types of Pythagorean triangles.

Author : Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie,David Fideler
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : David Conan Wolfsdorf
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198758679

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Early Greek Ethics by David Conan Wolfsdorf Pdf

Early Greek Ethics is the first volume devoted to philosophical ethics in its "formative" period. It explores contributions from the Presocratics, figures of the early Pythagorean tradition, sophists, and anonymous texts, as well as topics influential to ethical philosophical thought such as Greek medicine, music, friendship, and justice.