Pythagoras and the Early Pythagoreans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pythagoras and the Early Pythagoreans write by Leonid Zhmud. This book was released on 2012-05-31. Pythagoras and the Early Pythagoreans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pythagoras (c. 570 - c. 495 BC), arguably the most influential thinker among the Presocratics, emerges in ancient tradition as a wise teacher, an outstanding mathematician, an influential politician, and as a religious and ethical reformer. He claimed to possess supernatural powers and was the kind of personality who attracted legends. In contrast to his controversial and elusive nature, the early Pythagoreans, such as the doctors Democedes and Alcmaeon, the Olympic victors Milon and Iccus, the botanist Menestor, the natural philosopher Hippon, and the mathematicians Hippasus and Theodorus, all appear in our sources as 'rational' as they can possibly be. It was this 'normality' that ensured the continued existence of Pythagoreanism as a philosophical and scientific school till c. 350 BC. This volume offers a comprehensive study of Pythagoras and the early Pythagoreans through an analysis of the many representations of the Teacher and his followers, allowing the representations to complement and critique each other. Relying predominantly on sources dating back to before 300 BC, Zhmud portrays a more historical picture of Pythagoras, of the society founded by him, and of its religion than is known from the late antique biographies. In chapters devoted to mathematical and natural sciences cultivated by the Pythagoreans and to their philosophies, a critical distinction is made between the theories of individual figures and a generalized 'all-Pythagorean teaching', which is known from Aristotle.
Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans
Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans write by Charles H. Kahn. This book was released on 2001-09-30. Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A fascinating portrait of the Pythagorean tradition, including a substantial account of the Neo-Pythagorean revival, and ending with Johannes Kepler on the threshold of modernism.
Pythagoras and the Early Pythagoreans
Pythagoras and the Early Pythagoreans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pythagoras and the Early Pythagoreans write by Leonid Zhmud. This book was released on 2012-05-31. Pythagoras and the Early Pythagoreans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In ancient tradition, Pythagoras emerges as a wise teacher, an outstanding mathematician, an influential politician, and as a religious and ethical reformer. This volume offers a comprehensive study of Pythagoras, Pythagoreanism, and the early Pythagoreans through an analysis of the many representations of the individual and his followers.
Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism
Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism write by Walter Burkert. This book was released on 1972. Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For this first English edition of his distinguished study of Pythagoreanism, Weisheit und Wissenschajt: Studien zu Pythagoras, Philolaos, und Platon, Walter Burkert has carefully revised text and notes, taking account of additional literature on the subject which appeared between 1962 and 1969. By a thorough critical sifting of all the available evidence, the author lays a new foundation for the understanding of ancient Pythagoreanism and in particular of the relationship within it of "lore" and "science." He shows that in the twilight zone when the Greeks were discovering the rational interpretation of the world and quantitative natural science, Pythagoras represented not the origin of the new, but the survival or revival of ancient, pre-scientific lore or wisdom, based on superhuman authority and expressed in ritual obligation.
A History of Pythagoreanism
A History of Pythagoreanism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of Pythagoreanism write by Carl A. Huffman. This book was released on 2014-04-24. A History of Pythagoreanism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a comprehensive, authoritative and innovative account of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism, one of the most enigmatic and influential philosophies in the West. In twenty-one chapters covering a timespan from the sixth century BC to the seventeenth century AD, leading scholars construct a number of different images of Pythagoras and his community, assessing current scholarship and offering new answers to central problems. Chapters are devoted to the early Pythagoreans, and the full breadth of Pythagorean thought is explored including politics, religion, music theory, science, mathematics and magic. Separate chapters consider Pythagoreanism in Plato, Aristotle, the Peripatetics and the later Academic tradition, while others describe Pythagoreanism in the historical tradition, in Rome and in the pseudo-Pythagorean writings. The three great lives of Pythagoras by Diogenes Laertius, Porphyry and Iamblichus are also discussed in detail, as is the significance of Pythagoras for the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
