Doctrine and Doxography : : Studies on Heraclitus and Pythagoras / / ed. by David Sider, Dirk Obbink.

Pythagoras and Heraclitus developed theories of the universe and mankind’s place in it which were taken seriously by all later Greek thinkers. None of their works remains, however, except in later paraphrases that all too often are misrepresentations. Pythagoras had followers who attributed their ow...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Sozomena : Studies in the Recovery of Ancient Texts , 14
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Physical Description:1 online resource (349 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Contents
  • I. Pythagoras
  • 1. Philosophy’s Numerical Turn
  • 2. Pythagorean Communities
  • 3. Aristotle on the Pythagoreans
  • 4. Philolaus’ Critique of Heraclitus
  • II. Heraclitus
  • 5. Heraclitus, the Rival of Pythagoras
  • 6. Early Natural Theology
  • 7. Heraclitus on Measure and the Explicit Emergence of Rationality
  • 8. On the physical aspect of Heraclitus’ psychology
  • 9. How Not to Conceive Heraclitean Harmony
  • 10. Heraclitus on Logos
  • 11. Once More unto the Stream
  • 12. Heraclitus’ Ethics
  • Contributors
  • General Index
  • Index Locorum Potiorum