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Pythagoras And The Early Pythagoreans
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Author : Leonid Zhmud
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
Release Date : 2012-05-31
Pythagoras And The Early Pythagoreans written by Leonid Zhmud and has been published by Oxford University Press (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-31 with History categories.
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.
Pythagoras And The Early Pythagoreans
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Author : Leonid Zhmud
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-05-31
Pythagoras And The Early Pythagoreans written by Leonid Zhmud and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-31 with History categories.
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.
Pythagoras And Early Pythagoreanism
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Author : J. A. Philip
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Pythagoras And Early Pythagoreanism written by J. A. Philip and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Philosophy categories.
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.
Pythagoras And The Pythagoreans
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Author : Charles H. Kahn
language : en
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
Release Date : 2001
Pythagoras And The Pythagoreans written by Charles H. Kahn and has been published by Hackett Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Philosophy categories.
Expanding on his 1993 monograph appearing in Italian translation, Hahn (philosophy, U. of Pennsylvania) surveys Pythagorean tradition from the sixth century BC to its influence on early modern math, music, and astronomy as well as its ideas on the occult, reincarnation, and vegetarianism--although Pythagoras left no written record. Indexed by ancient and early modern name, and by modern name. c. Book News Inc.
Lore And Science In Ancient Pythagoreanism
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Author : Walter Burkert
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1972
Lore And Science In Ancient Pythagoreanism written by Walter Burkert and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Fiction categories.
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.
Ancient Women Philosophers
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Author : Mary Ellen Waithe
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 1987-04-30
Ancient Women Philosophers written by Mary Ellen Waithe and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-04-30 with History categories.
Dit boek is het eerste deel in een reeks van vier over de geschiedenis van vrouwen in de filosofie.
Plato And Pythagoreanism
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Author : Phillip Sidney Horky
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
Plato And Pythagoreanism written by Phillip Sidney Horky and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with History categories.
Was Plato a Pythagorean? Plato's students and earliest critics thought so, but later scholars have been more skeptical. Plato and Pythagoreanism reconsiders this question by arguing that a specific type of Pythagorean philosophy, called "mathematical" Pythagoreanism, played a profound role in Plato's philosophy.
Pythagoras And The Early Pythagoreans
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Author : Leonid I︠A︡kovlevich Zhmudʹ
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Pythagoras And The Early Pythagoreans written by Leonid I︠A︡kovlevich Zhmudʹ and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Pythagoras and Pythagorean school categories.
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 study of Pythagoras, Pythagoreanism, and the early Pythagoreans through an analysis of the many representations of the individual and his followers.
Pythagorean Knowledge From The Ancient To The Modern World
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Author : Almut-Barbara Renger
language : en
Publisher: Harrassowitz
Release Date : 2016
Pythagorean Knowledge From The Ancient To The Modern World written by Almut-Barbara Renger and has been published by Harrassowitz this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Philosophy, Ancient categories.
In both ancient tradition and modern research Pythagoreanism has been understood as a religious sect or as a philosophical and scientific community. Numerous attempts have been made to reconcile these pictures as well as to analyze them separately. The most recent scholarship compartmentalizes different facets of Pythagorean knowledge, but this offers no context for exploring their origins, development, and interdependence. This collection aims to reverse this trend, addressing connections between the different fields of Pythagorean knowledge, such as eschatology, metempsychosis, metaphysics, epistemology, arithmology and numerology, music, dietetics and medicine as well as politics. In particular, the contributions discuss how the Pythagorean way of life related to more doctrinal aspects of knowledge, such as Pythagorean religion and science. The volume explores the effects of this interdependence between different kinds of knowledge both within the Pythagorean corpus and in its later reception. Chapters cover historical periods from the Archaic Period (6th century BC) to Neoplatonism, Early Christianity, the European and Arabic Middle Ages, and the Renaissance through to the Early Modern Period (17th century AD). Contributions by E. Afonasin, L. Arcari, D. Baltzly, A. Barker, H. Bartos, A. Bernabe, J. Bremmer, L. Brisson, F. Casadesus, M. Catarzi, S. Chrysakopoulou, G. Cornelli, E. Cottrell, S. Galson, M. Giangiulio, T. Iremadze, A. Izdebska, C. L. Joost-Gaugier, S. Kouloumentas, B. La Sala, R. McKirahan, C. Montepaone, H.-P. Neumann, A. Palmer, A. Provenza, I. Ramelli, D. Robichaud, B. Roling, W. Schmidt-Biggemann, E. Spinelli, I. F. Viltanioti, and L. Zhmud.
The Metaphysics Of The Pythagorean Theorem
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Author : Robert Hahn
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2017-05-01
The Metaphysics Of The Pythagorean Theorem written by Robert Hahn and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-01 with Philosophy categories.
Bringing together geometry and philosophy, this book undertakes a strikingly original study of the origins and significance of the Pythagorean theorem. Thales, whom Aristotle called the first philosopher and who was an older contemporary of Pythagoras, posited the principle of a unity from which all things come, and back into which they return upon dissolution. He held that all appearances are only alterations of this basic unity and there can be no change in the cosmos. Such an account requires some fundamental geometric figure out of which appearances are structured. Robert Hahn argues that Thales came to the conclusion that it was the right triangle: by recombination and repackaging, all alterations can be explained from that figure. This idea is central to what the discovery of the Pythagorean theorem could have meant to Thales and Pythagoras in the sixth century BCE. With more than two hundred illustrations and figures, Hahn provides a series of geometric proofs for this lost narrative, tracing it from Thales to Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans who followed, and then finally to Plato's Timaeus. Uncovering the philosophical motivation behind the discovery of the theorem, Hahn's book will enrich the study of ancient philosophy and mathematics alike.