Pythagoras and Early Pythagoreanism. - PHILIP, J.A.,

KORTE INHOUD

'The main purpose of this study is to survey the evidence provided by Aristotle for the reconstruction of the earlier history of Pythagoreanism. Aristotle's account deals with three principal themes - the Pythagoras legend, Pythagorean practice, and Pythagorean doctrine. (...) Whatever may have been Aristotle's attitude towards the legends and the so-called Pythagorean way of life, it is clear that he was extremely interested in certain doctrines which he called Pythagorean. These are discussed frequently and at length in several of the treatises (...). The main part of the present book is naturally concerned with these matters, above all with the Opposites, with Cosmology, and with Number Theory. On these issues Philip reaches a number of specific conclusions. He believes that in general when Aristotle refers to Pythagoreans he is in fact referring to Pythagoras himself and not to any later group or groups (...). Moreover we must not suppose that the use of the plural by Aristotle when referring to Pythagore...
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1966Uitgever: University of Toronto Press