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In Search of Pythagoreanism : Pythagoreanism as an Historiographical Category.
The history of Pythagoreanism is littered with different and incompatible interpretations. This observation directs this book towards a fundamentally historiographical rather than philological approach, setting out to reconstruct the way in which the tradition established Pythagoreanism's image...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
2013.
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| Colección: | Studia praesocratica.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword; Acknowledgements; Note; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 History of criticism: from Zeller to Kingsley; 1.1 Zeller: the skepticism of the beginnings; 1.2 Diels: a Zellerian collection; 1.3 Rohde: the reaction to skepticism; 1.4 Burnet: the double teaching of acousmatics and mathematicians; 1.5 Cornford and Guthrie: in search of unity between science and religion; 1.6 From Delatte to De Vogel: Pythagoreanism and politics; 1.7 Aristotle's unique testimony and the uncertain Academic tradition; 1.8 From Burkert to Kingsley: the third way and mysticism in the Pythagorean tradition.
- 1.9 Conclusion2 Pythagoreanism as a historiographical category; 2.1 Interpreting interpretations: diachronic and synchronic dimensions; 2.2 Pythagorean identity; 2.3 The Pythagorean koinōnía; 2.4 Acousmatics and mathematicians; 2.5 Conclusion; 3 Immortality of the soul and metempsýchosis; 3.1 "Is it the soul?" (Xenophanes); 3.2 "Wiser than all" (Heraclitus and Ion of Chios); 3.3 "Ten or twenty human generations" (Empedocles); 3.4 Plato and Orphism; 3.4.1 "Understanding the logos of their ministry"; 3.4.2 Hierarchy of incarnations; 3.4.3 Sôma-sêma; 3.4.4 Pythagorean mediation.
- 3.5 Herodotus, Isocrates and Egypt3.6 Legends on immortality; 3.7 A Pythagorean Democritus?; 3.8 Aristotle and the Pythagorean myths; 3.9 Conclusion; 4 Numbers; 4.1 All is number?; 4.1.1 Three versions of the Pythagorean doctrine of numbers; 4.1.2 Two solutions; 4.1.3 The Philolaic solution; 4.1.3.1 One book or three books?; 4.1.3.2 Authenticity of Philolaus' fragments; 4.1.3.3 The Doric pseudo-epigraphic tradition; 4.1.4 The Aristotelian exception (Met. A 6, 987b); 4.1.5 The Platonic testimony (Phlb. 16c-23c); 4.2 The fragments of Philolaus; 4.2.1 Unlimited/limiting.
- 4.2.2 The role of numbers in Philolaus4.3 Conclusion; Conclusion; Bibliography; Primary sources; Secondary sources; Index of Topics; Index of Passages; Index of Names.