For this first English edition of his distinguished study of
Pythagoreanism, Weisheit und Wissenschajt: Studien zu Pythagoras,
Philolaos, und Platon, Walter Burkert has carefully revised text
and notes, taking account of additional literature on the subject
which appeared between 1962 and 1969. By a thorough critical
sifting of all the available evidence, the author lays a new
foundation for the understanding of ancient Pythagoreanism and in
particular of the relationship within it of "lore" and "science."
He shows that in the twilight zone when the Greeks were discovering
the rational interpretation of the world and quantitative natural
science, Pythagoras represented not the origin of the new, but the
survival or revival of ancient, pre-scientific lore or wisdom,
based on superhuman authority and expressed in ritual obligation.
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