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Horky Philip Sidney |
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Titolo |
Plato and Pythagoreanism / / Philip Sidney Horky |
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New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2013 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-989823-5 |
0-19-989822-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (328 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Mathematics, Ancient |
Pythagoras and Pythagorean school |
Pythagorean theorem |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-279) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations""; ""1. Aristotle on Mathematical Pythagoreanism in the Fourth Century BCE""; ""2. Hippasus of Metapontum and Mathematical Pythagoreanism""; ""3. Exoterism and the History of Pythagorean Politics""; ""4. Mathematical Pythagoreanism and Plato�s Cratylus""; ""5. What Is Wisest? Mathematical Pythagoreanism and Plato�s Phaedo""; ""6. The Method of the Gods: Mathematical Pythagoreanism and Discovery""; ""Afterword""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index Locorum""; ""General Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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