Plato And Pythagoreanism
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Plato and Pythagoreanism
Author: Phillip Sidney Horky
language: en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date: 2016
Was Plato a Pythagorean? Plato's students and earliest critics thought so, but later scholars have been more skeptical. Plato and Pythagoreanism reconsiders this question by arguing that a specific type of Pythagorean philosophy, called "mathematical" Pythagoreanism, played a profound role in Plato's philosophy.
Plato and Pythagoreanism
In this book, Phillip Sidney Horky argues that a specific type of Pythagorean philosophy, called "mathematical" Pythagoreanism, exercised a decisive influence on fundamental aspects of Plato's philosophy. The progenitor of mathematical Pythagoreanism was the infamous Pythagorean heretic and political revolutionary Hippasus of Metapontum, a student of Pythagoras who is credited with experiments in harmonics that led to innovations in mathematics. The innovations of Hippasus and other mathematical Pythagoreans, presented philosophers like Plato with new approaches to science that sought to reconcile empirical knowledge with abstract mathematical theories. This book shows how mathematical Pythagoreanism established many of the fundamental philosophical questions Plato dealt with in his central dialogues. In the process, it also illuminates the historical significance of the mathematical Pythagoreans.
Aristotle, Plato and Pythagoreanism in the First Century BC
Author: Malcolm Schofield
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2013-01-17
This book presents an up-to-date overview of the main new directions taken by ancient philosophy in the first century BC, a period in which the dominance exercised in the Hellenistic age by Stoicism, Epicureanism and Academic Scepticism gave way to a more diverse and experimental philosophical scene. Its development has been much less well understood, but here a strong international team of leading scholars of the subject reconstruct key features of the changed environment. They examine afresh the evidence for some of the central Greek thinkers of the period, as well as illuminating Cicero's engagement with Plato both as translator and in his own philosophising. The intensity of renewed study of Aristotle's Categories and Plato's Timaeus is an especially striking outcome of their discussions. The volume will be indispensable for scholars and students interested in the history of Platonism and Aristotelianism.