On Pythagoreanism
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On Pythagoreanism
Author: Gabriele Cornelli
language: en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date: 2013-10-29
The purpose of the conference “On Pythagoreanism”, held in Brasilia in 2011, was to bring together leading scholars from all over the world to define the status quaestionis for the ever-increasing interest and research on Pythagoreanism in the 21st century. The papers included in this volume exemplify the variety of topics and approaches now being used to understand the polyhedral image of one of the most fascinating and long-lasting intellectual phenomena in Western history. Cornelli’s paper opens the volume by charting the course of Pythagorean studies over the past two centuries. The remaining contributions range chronologically from Pythagoras and the early Pythagoreans of the archaic period (6th-5th centuries BCE) through the classical, hellenistic and late antique periods, to the eighteenth century. Thematically they treat the connections of Pythagoreanism with Orphism and religion, with mathematics, metaphysics and epistemology and with politics and the Pythagorean way of life.
Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans
Author: Charles H. Kahn
language: en
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
Release Date: 2001
Expanding on his 1993 monograph appearing in Italian translation, Hahn (philosophy, U. of Pennsylvania) surveys Pythagorean tradition from the sixth century BC to its influence on early modern math, music, and astronomy as well as its ideas on the occult, reincarnation, and vegetarianism--although Pythagoras left no written record. Indexed by ancient and early modern name, and by modern name. c. Book News Inc.
Pythagoras Revived
Author: Dominic J. O'Meara
language: en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date: 1989
The Pythagorean idea that number is the key to understanding reality inspired Neoplatonist philosophers in the fourth and fifth centuries to develop theories in physics and metaphysics based on mathematical models. The theories produced by this revived interest in Pythagoreanism were to become influential in medieval and early modern philosophy, and this book makes use of some newly-discovered evidence to examine for the first time the development of those theories.