Pythagoreanism A Note On The Philosophical School
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Pythagoreanism A Note On The Philosophical School
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Author : Pons Malleus
language : en
Publisher: Pons Malleus
Release Date : 2025-07-10
Pythagoreanism A Note On The Philosophical School written by Pons Malleus and has been published by Pons Malleus this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-07-10 with Philosophy categories.
The name "Pythagoras" often evokes a single, familiar image: a bearded figure in a toga pointing to a triangle, proclaiming the famous theorem that bears his name. Yet to reduce Pythagoras to a mere mathematician is to miss the depth and breadth of a tradition that helped shape the foundations of Western thought. Pythagoreanism was not merely a mathematical curiosity—it was a profound philosophical school that wove together number, harmony, ethics, cosmology, and mysticism into a comprehensive vision of reality. This book is a journey into that vision. Long before the formalization of science and philosophy as we know them today, the early Pythagoreans pursued knowledge with a fervent belief that the universe was intelligible, ordered, and fundamentally numerical. They were not content with quantitative measurements alone; they saw in numbers the key to the structure of the cosmos, the rhythm of music, the cycles of the soul, and the laws that govern moral life. For them, mathematics was a spiritual exercise—an ascent of the mind toward the divine. Pythagoreanism is a school of paradoxes: rational yet mystical, empirical yet speculative, scientific yet religious. It influenced not only Plato and the Neoplatonists, but also threads of thought in Christian theology, Renaissance science, and modern esotericism. The Pythagorean ideal of a universe governed by order and harmony continues to echo in both scientific paradigms and metaphysical inquiries. This work does not aim to reconstruct the historical Pythagoras, a task fraught with contradiction and myth. Nor does it claim to catalog exhaustively the teachings of the diverse thinkers who bore his name across centuries. Rather, this book seeks to trace the contours of Pythagorean thought as a living tradition—a philosophical lens through which reality has been interpreted, questioned, and revered. We begin with the origins of the Pythagorean community in the 6th century BCE, exploring their practices of secrecy, communal living, and the doctrine of transmigration of souls. We examine the symbolic language of numbers, the role of harmony in ethics and cosmology, and the ways in which Pythagorean ideas merged with and influenced later philosophical developments. Through historical texts, interpretive analysis, and modern perspectives, we attempt to illuminate a school of thought that dared to believe that at the heart of being itself lies a kind of music. Whether you are a philosopher, a mathematician, a seeker of metaphysical truths, or simply curious about one of antiquity’s most intriguing traditions, this book invites you into the world of Pythagoreanism—not as a relic of the past, but as a rich source of insight for thinking anew about the nature of order, beauty, and the soul.
Samuel Beckett S Philosophy Notes
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Author : Steven Matthews
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023-08-25
Samuel Beckett S Philosophy Notes written by Steven Matthews 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 2023-08-25 with Literary Collections categories.
The Irish writer and Nobel Prize winner, Samuel Beckett, assembled for himself a history of western philosophy during the 1930s, just at the point at which his first novel, Murphy, was coming together. The 'Philosophy Notes', together with related notes taken at that time about St. Augustine, thereafter provided Beckett with a store of knowledge, but also with phrases and images, which he took up in the major work that won him international and enduring fame, from the dramas Waiting for Godot and Endgame, through to the late prose works Worstward Ho and Stirrings Still. This edition presents, for the first time, Beckett's full 'Philosophy Notes', which constitute his most extensive unpublished text. The Notes display Beckett's own interests and emphases within the history of western philosophy, from the pre-Socratic Greeks onwards, together with more familiar figures in the study of his work, such as Descartes, Leibnitz, and Geulincx. Here we see Beckett's original thoughts on all of these figures for the first time. The Notes also, tellingly and often comically, display Beckett's impatience with many aspects of philosophy, such as its anthropological or anthropomorphic bias, or the idealism of the Enlightenment and Kant. The Edition contains an extensive Introduction, outlining the origin of Beckett's Notes, his major sources and approach to them, the historical context for his view of philosophy, and the significance of Beckett's 'Philosophy Notes' within his mature writings. The many footnotes then suggest ways in which particular aspects of the philosophy narrated here by Beckett suggest fresh insights into those later writings--the images, but also the creative impulses, behind some of his most famous texts. This Edition, further, raises larger questions about, and perspectives upon, the relation between philosophy and literature in the twentieth century and beyond.
Moral Education For Women In The Pastoral And Pythagorean Letters
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Author : Annette Huizenga
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2013-03-27
Moral Education For Women In The Pastoral And Pythagorean Letters written by Annette Huizenga and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-27 with Religion categories.
In Moral Education for Women in the Pastoral and Pythagorean Letters: Philosophers of the Household, Annette Bourland Huizenga examines the Greco-Roman moral-philosophical “curriculum” for women by comparing these two pseudepigraphic epistolary collections. The analysis is organized around four elements: textual resources, teachers and learners, instructional strategies, and subject matter. Huizenga shows that the author of the Pastorals has adopted nearly all of the “pagan” aspects of this curriculum, but has supplemented these with theological justifications drawn from Pauline literature and traditions. The letters attributed to female Pythagoreans have long been suggested as comparanda for the Pastorals, but are not well-known as sources. This volume provides a Greek edition, a new English translation, and a text history of these letters.
Critical Notes On Philostratus Life Of Apollonius Of Tyana
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Author : Gerard Johannes Boter
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2023-07-04
Critical Notes On Philostratus Life Of Apollonius Of Tyana written by Gerard Johannes Boter and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
The long felt absence of a trustworthy critical edition of Philostratus’ Life of Apollonius of Tyana has been remedied by the publication of the new Teubner edition of this text, published in 2022. In the preface to the edition the publication of a companion volume was announced. This book fulfils this promise. After an introduction dealing with the transmission of the text and with Philostratus’ Greek there follows an extensive series of critical notes in which a large number of editorial choices are explained. In these notes much attention is paid both to the morphological and syntactic peculiarities of Greek of the Imperial period in general and to the idiosyncratic syntax employed by Philostratus in particular. The notes deal with every aspect of the text, ranging from the use of particles and word order to moods and tenses, and containing ample discussions of conjectures and interpretations of earlier scholars. This book is an indispensable working tool for scholars using the new Teubner edition of the Life of Apollonius. It also caters for the needs of students of Greek language and literature in general, and especially of those interested in the Second Sophistic and the works of Flavius Philostratus.
The Metaphysics Of Aristotle Literally Translated From The Greek With Notes Analysis Questions And Index By The Rev John H M Mahon
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Author : Aristotle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1857
The Metaphysics Of Aristotle Literally Translated From The Greek With Notes Analysis Questions And Index By The Rev John H M Mahon written by Aristotle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1857 with categories.
Notes On Greek Philosophy From Thales To Aristotle
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Author : Anthony Preus
language : en
Publisher: Global Academic Publishing
Release Date : 1996-12
Notes On Greek Philosophy From Thales To Aristotle written by Anthony Preus and has been published by Global Academic Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-12 with Philosophy categories.
Platonopolis
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Author : Dominic J. O'Meara
language : en
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Release Date : 2003-05-01
Platonopolis written by Dominic J. O'Meara and has been published by Clarendon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05-01 with Philosophy categories.
Conventional wisdom suggests that the Platonist philosophers of Late Antiquity, from Plotinus (third century) to the sixth-century schools in Athens and Alexandria, neglected the political dimension of their Platonic heritage in their concentration on an otherworldly life. Dominic O'Meara presents a revelatory reappraisal of these thinkers, arguing that their otherworldliness involved rather than excluded political ideas, and he proposes for the first time a reconstruction of their political philosophy, their conception of the function, structure, and contents of political science, and its relation to political virtue and to the divinization of soul and state. Among the topics discussed by O'Meara are: philosopher-kings and queens; political goals and levels of reform: law, constitutions, justice, and penology; the political function of religion; and the limits of political science and action. He also explores various reactions to these political ideas in the works of Christian and Islamic writers, in particular Eusebius, Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius, and al-Farabi. Filling a major gap in our understanding, Platonopolis will be of substantial interest to scholars and students of ancient philosophy, classicists, and historians of political thought.
Studies In Greek Philosophy Volume I
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Author : Gregory Vlastos
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2022-02-08
Studies In Greek Philosophy Volume I written by Gregory Vlastos and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-08 with Philosophy categories.
Gregory Vlastos (1907-1991) was one of the twentieth century's most influential scholars of ancient philosophy. Over a span of more than fifty years, he published essays and book reviews that established his place as a leading authority on early Greek philosophy. The two volumes that comprise Studies in Greek Philosophy include nearly forty contributions by this acknowledged master of the philosophical essay. Many of these pieces are now considered to be classics in the field. Perhaps more than any other modern scholar, Gregory Vlastos was responsible for raising standards of research, analysis, and exposition in classical philosophy to new levels of excellence. His essays have served as paradigms of scholarship for several generations. Available for the first time in a comprehensive collection, these contributions reveal the author's ability to combine the skills of a philosopher, philologist, and historian of ideas in addressing some of the most difficult problems of ancient philosophy. Volume I collects Vlastos's essays on Presocratic philosophy. Wide-ranging concept studies link Greek science, religion, and politics with philosophy. Individual studies illuminate the thought of major philosophers such as Heraclitus, Parmenides, Anaxagoras, and Democritus. A magisterial series of studies on Zeno of Elea reveals the author's power in source criticism and logical analysis. Volume II contains essays on the thought of Socrates, Plato, and later thinkers and essays dealing with ethical, social, and political issues as well as metaphysics, science, and the foundations of mathematics.
Lectures On The History Of Philosophy 1825 6 Greek Philosophy
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Author : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2006
Lectures On The History Of Philosophy 1825 6 Greek Philosophy written by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 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 2006 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This edition adapts the considerable editorial resources of the German edition that it translates, to the needs of the general reader as well as the serious scholar, so as to constitute an unparalleled resource on this topic in the English language
A History Of Greek Philosophy Volume 1 The Earlier Presocratics And The Pythagoreans
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Author : William Keith Chambers Guthrie
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1978
A History Of Greek Philosophy Volume 1 The Earlier Presocratics And The Pythagoreans written by William Keith Chambers Guthrie and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Philosophy categories.
The most striking merits of Guthrie's work are his mastery of a tremendous range of ancient literature and modern scholarship.