Plato and Pythagoreanism
Was Plato a Pythagorean? Plato's students and earliest critics thought so, but later scholars have been more skeptical. This book reconsiders this question by arguing that a specific type of Pythagorean philosophy, called 'mathematical' Pythagoreanism played a profound role in Plato's philosophy.
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- Full title :Plato and Pythagoreanism / Philip Sidney Horky.
Summary
Was Plato a Pythagorean? Plato's students and earliest critics thought so, but later scholars have been more skeptical. This book reconsiders this question by arguing that a specific type of Pythagorean philosophy, called 'mathematical' Pythagoreanism played a profound role in Plato's philosophy.
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- Publication Date:2013.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:New York City
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780199898237, 0199898235
- oclc:ocn852158340
- LC Classification:QA22
- Dewey Decimal:184
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Aristotle on Mathematical Pythagoreanism in the 4th Century BCE -- Chapter 2: Hippasus of Metapontum and Mathematical Pythagoreanism -- Chapter 3: Exoterism and the History of Pythagorean Politics -- Chapter 4: Mathematical Pythagoreanism and Plato's Cratylus -- Chapter 5: What is Wisest? Mathematical Pythagoreanism and Plato's Phaedo -- Chapter 6: The Method of the Gods: Mathematical Pythagoreanism and Discovery.
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