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Iamblichus: On the General Science of Mathematics (Hardcover)
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Iamblichus: On the General Science of Mathematics (Hardcover)
Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
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On the General Science of Mathematics is the third of four
surviving works out of ten by Iamblichus (c. 245 CE-early 320s) on
the Pythagoreans. He thought the Pythagoreans had treated
mathematics as essential for drawing the human soul upwards to
higher realms described by Plato, and downwards to understand the
physical cosmos, the products of arts and crafts and the order
required for an ethical life. His Pythagorean treatises use edited
quotation to re-tell the history of philosophy, presenting Plato
and Aristotle as passing on the ideas invented by Pythagoras and
his early followers. Although his quotations tend to come instead
from Plato and later Pythagoreanising Platonists, this
re-interpretation had a huge impact on the Neoplatonist
commentators in Athens. Iamblichus' cleverness, if not to the same
extent his re-interpretation, was appreciated by the commentators
in Alexandria.
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