Plato and Pythagoreanism.

Was Plato a Pythagorean? Plato's students and earliest critics thought so, but later scholars have been more skeptical. This book reconsiders this question by arguing that a specific type of Pythagorean philosophy, called 'mathematical' Pythagoreanism played a profound role in Plato&#...

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Main Author: Horky, Phillip Sidney
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Scholarship Online, 2013.
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Summary:Was Plato a Pythagorean? Plato's students and earliest critics thought so, but later scholars have been more skeptical. This book reconsiders this question by arguing that a specific type of Pythagorean philosophy, called 'mathematical' Pythagoreanism played a profound role in Plato's philosophy.
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:1299690815
9781299690813
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