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Plato and Pythagoreanism (Hardcover)
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Plato and Pythagoreanism (Hardcover)
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Was Plato a Pythagorean? Plato's students and earliest critics
thought so, but scholars since the 19th century have been more
skeptical. In Plato and Pythagoreanism, 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, including Empedocles of
Agrigentum, Epicharmus of Syracuse, Philolaus of Croton, and
Archytas of Tarentum, presented philosophers like Plato with new
approaches to science that sought to reconcile empirical knowledge
with abstract mathematical theories. Plato and Pythagoreanism shows
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 the
mathematical Pythagoreans, a group whose influence over the
development of philosophical and scientific methods have 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 concerning the
essential relationships between the cosmos and the human being.
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