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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&#...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Horky, Philip Sidney
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York City : Oxford University Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.