In Search of Pythagoreanism (eBook)

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Gabriele Cornelli, University of Brasília, Brazil.

Foreword 7
Acknowledgements 11
Note 12
Abbreviations 13
Introduction 15
1 History of criticism: from Zeller to Kingsley 21
1.1 Zeller: the skepticism of the beginnings 22
1.2 Diels: a Zellerian collection 28
1.3 Rohde: the reaction to skepticism 29
1.4 Burnet: the double teaching of acousmatics and mathematicians 31
1.5 Cornford and Guthrie: in search of unity between science and religion 33
1.6 From Delatte to De Vogel: Pythagoreanism and politics 37
1.7 Aristotle’s unique testimony and the uncertain Academic tradition 47
1.8 From Burkert to Kingsley: the third way and mysticism in the Pythagorean tradition 54
1.9 Conclusion 63
2 Pythagoreanism as a historiographical category 66
2.1 Interpreting interpretations: diachronic and synchronic dimensions 66
2.2 Pythagorean identity 69
2.3 The Pythagorean koinonía 75
2.4 Acousmatics and mathematicians 91
2.5 Conclusion 97
3 Immortality of the soul and metempsýchosis 100
3.1 “Is it the soul?” (Xenophanes) 103
3.2 “Wiser than all” (Heraclitus and Ion of Chios) 108
3.3 “Ten or twenty human generations” (Empedocles) 111
3.4 Plato and Orphism 114
3.4.1 “Understanding the logos of their ministry” 115
3.4.2 Hierarchy of incarnations 120
3.4.3 Sôma-sêma 121
3.4.4 Pythagorean mediation 130
3.5 Herodotus, Isocrates and Egypt 135
3.6 Legends on immortality 138
3.7 A Pythagorean Democritus? 141
3.8 Aristotle and the Pythagorean myths 143
3.9 Conclusion 148
4 Numbers 151
4.1 All is number? 152
4.1.1 Three versions of the Pythagorean doctrine of numbers 152
4.1.2 Two solutions 161
4.1.3 The Philolaic solution 164
4.1.3.1 One book or three books? 165
4.1.3.2 Authenticity of Philolaus’ fragments 167
4.1.3.3 The Doric pseudo-epigraphic tradition 169
4.1.4 The Aristotelian exception (Met. A 6, 987b) 173
4.1.5 The Platonic testimony (Phlb. 16c-23c) 181
4.2 The fragments of Philolaus 186
4.2.1 Unlimited/limiting 186
4.2.2 The role of numbers in Philolaus 192
4.3 Conclusion 198
Conclusion 203
Bibliography 211
Primary sources 211
Secondary sources 214
Index of Topics 228
Index of Passages 233
Index of Names 238

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"This brief but from now on fundamental book opens a new path for research in the search for Pythagoreanism."
David Hernández in: BMCR 2014.10.22