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

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Obbink, Dirk.
• Sider, David.

Series:

• Sozomena (Berlin, Germany) ; v. 14.
• Sozomena ; volume 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Philosophers, Ancient.
• Heraclitus, of Ephesus.
• Pythagoras.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 own ideas to their master; Heraclitus wrote in a prose style so ambiguous that he came to be known as the Shadow, so that even the most earnest attempts to paraphrase his views had to smooth out his intentional rough edges. Nonetheless, enough remains to allow the authors of this volume, edited by David Sider and Dirk Obbink (Oxford), to offer new ways of viewing their views and the way others perceived them. The contributors are Gábor Betegh (Budapest), Roman Dilcher (Heidelberg), Aryeh Finkelberg (Tel Aviv), Daniel Graham (Brigham Young University), Herbert Granger (Wayne State University), Carl Huffman (DePauw), Enrique Hülsz Piccone (Mexico City), Anthony Long (Berkeley), Richard McKirahan (Pomona), Catherine Rowett (East Anglia), David Sider (New York), and Leonid Zhmud (St. Petersberg).

Contents:

• Front matter
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Contents
• 1. Philosophy’s Numerical Turn
• 2. Pythagorean Communities
• 3. Aristotle on the Pythagoreans
• 4. Philolaus’ Critique of 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

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

• 9783110331370
• 3110331373

OCLC:

862821671