Plato and Pythagoreanism [electronic resource] / Philip Sidney Horky.
Horky, Phillip Sidney.
2013
QA22 .H67 2013eb
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Title Plato and Pythagoreanism [electronic resource] / Philip Sidney Horky.
Author Horky, Phillip Sidney.
ISBN 9780199898237 electronic book
9780199898220
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2013
Language English
Description 1 online resource (328 pages)
Call Number QA22 .H67 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 184
Summary This work argues that a specific type of Pythagorean philosophy, called "mathematical" Pythagoreanism, exercised a decisive influence on fundamental aspects of Plato's philosophy. Specifically, innovations of mathematical Pythagoreans such as Hippasus of Metapontum, Empedocles of Agrigentum, Epicharmus of Syracuse, Philolaus of Croton, and Archytas of Tarentum presented philosophers like Plato with novel ways to reconcile empirical knowledge with abstract mathematical theories.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-279) and indexes.
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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.

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