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Record Nr.

UNISA996207186403316

Autore

Horky Philip Sidney

Titolo

Plato and Pythagoreanism / / Philip Sidney Horky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2013

ISBN

0-19-989823-5

0-19-989822-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 p.)

Disciplina

184

Soggetti

Mathematics, Ancient

Pythagoras and Pythagorean school

Pythagorean theorem

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-279) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

""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

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.