Pythagorean knowledge from the ancient to the modern world : askesis, religion, science

In both ancient tradition and modern research Pythagoreanism has been understood as a religious sect or as a philosophical and scientific community. Numerous attempts have been made to reconcile these pictures as well as to analyze them separately. The most recent scholarship compartmentalizes diffe...

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Autres auteurs: Renger, Almut-Barbara 1969- (Éditeur intellectuel), Stavru, Alessandro 1971- (Éditeur intellectuel), Otto Harrassowitz GmbH & Co. KG, Tagung
Format: Ebook
Langue:English
Publié: Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2016
Titres liés à la collection:Episteme in Bewegung Band 4
Accès à la collection:Episteme in Bewegung
Sujets:Pythagoras and Pythagorean school Philosophy, Ancient Pythagoreer Philosophie Religion Wissenschaft Kultur
Description matérielle:1 Online-Ressource (IX, 579 Seiten)
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  • 880-01 I. Orphika. Transfer of Afterlife Knowledge in Pythagorean Eschatology Alberto Bernabé
  • The Appropriation of the Figure of Orpheus and Orphic Doctrines: An Example of Pythagoras' Artful Knavery (kakotechnie)? Francesc Casadesús Bordoy
  • The Making of Pythagoreanism: Orpheus, Aglaophamus, Pythagoras, Plato Luc Brisson. II. Metempsychosis. Philolaus on the Soul
  • Is Parmenides a Pythagorean? Plato on Theoria as a Vision of the Soul Sylvana Chrysakopoulou
  • Aristotle and the Pythagorean Myths of Metempsychosis Gabriele Cornelli
  • Pythagoras and Christian Eschatology: The Debate on the Transmigration of Souls in Early Scholasticism Bernd Roling. III. Tropos tou biou. Aristoxenus and Timaeus on the Pythagorean Way of Life
  • Pythagorean Askesis in Timycha of Sparta and Theano of Croton Claudia Montepaone and Marcello Catarzi
  • The Sentences of Sextus and the Christian Transformation of Pythagorean Asceticism Ilaria Ramelli
  • Porphyry's Letter to Marcella: A Literary Attack on Christian Appropriation of (Neo)Pythagorean Moral Wisdom? Irini Fotini Viltanioti
  • Reinventing the Pythagorean Tradition in Pseudo-Justin's Cohortatio ad Graecos Luca Arcari
  • Transformations of Pythagorean Wisdom and Psychic askesis in Proclus' Timaeus Commentary Dirk Baltzly
  • The Active and Monastic Life in Humanist Biographies of Pythagoras Ada Palmer
  • Richard Reitzenstein, Pythagoras and the Life of Anatomy Jan N. Bremmer. IV. Dietetics and Medicine. The Pythagoreans on Medicine: Religion or Science?
  • Pythagoreans and Medical Writers on Periods of Human Gestation Andrea Barker
  • Iamblichus on Pythagorean Dietetics Hynek Bartoš. V. Music. The Pythagoreans and the Therapeutic Effects of the Paean between Religion, Paideia, and Politics
  • "Are Flute-Players Better than Philosophers?" Sextus Empiricus on Music, Against Pythagoras Emidio Spinelli. VI. Number and Harmony. Greek Arithmology: Pythagoras or Plato?
  • Pythagorean Numerology and Diophantus' Arithmetica: A Note on Hippolytus' Elenchos I 2 Eugen Afonasin
  • The Pythagorean Metaphysics of Numbers in the Works of the Ikhwān al-Ṣafā' and al-Shahrastāni Ana Izdebska
  • Pythagoras and the "Perfect" Churches of the Renaissance Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier
  • Kabbalah as a Transfer of Pythagorean Number Theory: The Case of Johannes Reuchlin's De Arte Cabalistica Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann
  • Unfolding Pythagoras: Leibniz, Myth and Mathesis Samuel Galson. VII. Refractions. The Pythagorean Doctrine in the Caucasus
  • Ibn Sīnā's and Al-Ghazālī's Approach to Pythagoreanism Beate Ulrike La Sala
  • Marsilio Ficino and Plato's Divided Line: Iamblichus and Pythagorean Pseudepigrapha in the Renaissance Denis Robichaud
  • Pythagoras Refracted: The Formation of Pythagoreanism in the Early Modern Period Hanns-Peter Neumann. Appendix: Three Texts on Pythagorean Way of Life. Pythagoras, the Wandering Ascetic: A Reconstruction of the Life of Pythagoras According to al-Mubashshir ibn Fātik and Ibn Abī Uṣaybi'a
  • Two Humanist Lives of Pythagoras Ada Palmer.