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Plato and Pythagoreanism

Phillip Sidney Horky
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      Was Plato a Pythagorean? Plato's students and earliest critics thought so, but scholars since the nineteenth century have been more skeptical. With this probing study, 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 revolutionaryHippasus 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, including Empedocles of Agrigentum, Epicharmus of Syracuse, Philolaus of Croton, and Archytas ofTarentum, presented philosophers like Plato with novel ways to reconcile empirical knowledge with abstract mathematical theories. Plato and Pythagoreanism demonstrates how mathematical Pythagoreanism established many of the fundamental philosophical questions Plato dealt with in his central dialogues, including Cratylus, Phaedo, Republic, Timaeus, and Philebus. In the process, it also illuminates the historical significance of themathematical Pythagoreans, a group whose influence on the development of philosophical and scientific methods has been obscured since late antiquity. The picture that results is one in which Plato inherits mathematical Pythagorean method only to transform it into a powerful philosophical argument about the essential relationships between the cosmos and the humanbeing.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Phillip Sidney Horky EAN: 9780190465704 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 474 g HEIGHT: 233 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2016-04-07 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Ancient / General, MATHEMATICS / History & Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

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      Ancient history, Philosophy of science, History of science, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

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      Phillip Sidney Horky is Lecturer in Classics at Durham University.
      Was Plato a Pythagorean? Plato's students and earliest critics thought so, but scholars since the nineteenth century have been more skeptical. With this probing study, 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 revolutionaryHippasus 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, including Empedocles of Agrigentum, Epicharmus of Syracuse, Philolaus of Croton, and Archytas ofTarentum, presented philosophers like Plato with novel ways to reconcile empirical knowledge with abstract mathematical theories. Plato and Pythagoreanism demonstrates how mathematical Pythagoreanism established many of the fundamental philosophical questions Plato dealt with in his central dialogues, including Cratylus, Phaedo, Republic, Timaeus, and Philebus. In the process, it also illuminates the historical significance of themathematical Pythagoreans, a group whose influence on the development of philosophical and scientific methods has been obscured since late antiquity. The picture that results is one in which Plato inherits mathematical Pythagorean method only to transform it into a powerful philosophical argument about the essential relationships between the cosmos and the humanbeing.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Phillip Sidney Horky EAN: 9780190465704 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 474 g HEIGHT: 233 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2016-04-07 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Ancient / General, MATHEMATICS / History & Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

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      Ancient history, Philosophy of science, History of science, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

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      Phillip Sidney Horky is Lecturer in Classics at Durham University.

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