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Title Doctrine and doxography : studies on Heraclitus and Pythagoras / edited by David Sider and Dirk Obbink.

Publication Info. Berlin : De Gruyter, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 349 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Sozomena, 1869-6368 ; volume 14
Sozomena ; volume 14. 1869-6368
Note International conference proceedings.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents I. Pythagoras; 1. Philosophy's Numerical Turn: Why the Pythagoreans' Interest in Numbers is Truly Awesome; 2. Pythagorean Communities: From Individuals to a Collective Portrait; 3. Aristotle on the Pythagoreans: His Sources and his Accounts of Pythagorean Principles; 4. Philolaus' Critique of Heraclitus; II. Heraclitus; 5. Heraclitus, the Rival of Pythagoras; 6. Early Natural Theology: The Purification of the Divine Nature; 7. Heraclitus on Measure and the Explicit Emergence of Rationality; 8. On the physical aspect of Heraclitus' psychology: With New Appendices.
9. How Not to Conceive Heraclitean Harmony10. Heraclitus on Logos: Language, Rationality and the Real; 11. Once More unto the Stream; 12. Heraclitus' Ethics; Contributors; General Index; Index Locorum Potiorum.
Summary This volume contains the proceedings of a conference on the Presocratic philosophers Pythagoras and Heraclitus. Investigated by a team of international scholars are key problems in doxography, Pythagorean Communities, logos, harmony, psychology, flux, number theory, ethics, and theology. Designed for all students of ancient philosophy, this volume will spur further investigations into these cardinal concerns of early Greek scientific thinkers.
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Subject Pythagoras.
Pythagoras.
Heraclitus, of Ephesus.
Heraclitus, of Ephesus.
Pythagoras.
Heraclitus, of Ephesus.
Pythagoras and Pythagorean school.
Pythagoras and Pythagorean school.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Sider, David, editor.
Obbink, Dirk, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Doctrine and doxography 9783110331165 (OCoLC)862062164
ISBN 9783110331370 (electronic book)
3110331373 (electronic book)
9783110331165
3110331160