Pythagoras : his life and teachings : a compendium of classical sources / Thomas Stanley ; preface by Manly P. Hall ; introduction by Henry L. Drake ; edited by James Wasserman ; with a study of Greek and Latin sources by J. Daniel Gunther.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stanley, Thomas, 1625-1678.

Contributor:

Wasserman, James, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pythagoras and Pythagorean school.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (415 p. ) ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lake Worth, FL : Ibis Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The timeless brilliance of this exhaustive survey of the best classical writers of antiquity on Pythagoras was first published in 1687 in Thomas Stanley's massive tome, The History of Philosophy. It remains as contemporary today as it was over three hundred years ago.The text of the 1687 book has been reset and modernized to make it more accessible to the modern reader. Spelling has been regularized, obsolete words not found in a modern dictionary have been replaced, and contemporary conventions of punctuation have been used.Biographical sketches of Thomas Stanley and Pythagoras by Manly Palmer Hall, founder of the Philosophical Research Society, have been included, along with a profound overview of Pythagorean philosophy by Platonic scholar Dr. Henry L. Drake.The extensive Greek language references throughout the text have been corrected and contextualized, and reset in a modern Greek font. Each quotation has been verified with the source document in Greek. An extensive annotated appendix of these classical sources is included. A complete bibliography details all the reference works utilized, and a small Glossary defines a number of terms, especially those from musical theory, which may be unfamiliar to the non-technical reader.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

Part One: The Life of Pythagoras

1. The Country, Parents, and Time of Pythagoras

2. His First Education and Masters

3. How He Traveled to Phoenicia

4. How He Traveled to Egypt

5. How He Went to Babylon

6. How He Returned to Samos

7. Travels to Delos, Delphi, Crete, and Sparta

8. How He Went to Olympia and Phlius

9. How He Lived at Samos

10. His Voyage to Italy

11. His Arrival at Crotona, and Upon What Occasion He First Became Eminent There

12. His Oration to the Young Men

13. His Oration to the Senators

14. His Oration to the Boys

15. His Oration to the Women

16. His Institution of a Sect in Private and Public

17. His Authority in Civil Affairs

18. Wonders Related of Him

19. His Death

20. His Person and Virtues

21. His Wife, Children, and Servents

22. His Writings

23. His Diciples

24. The Succession of His School

Part Two: The Discipline and Doctrine of the Pythagoreans

1. The Great Authority and Esteen of Pythagoras Amongst His Disciples

2. The Two Sorts of Auditors: and First of the Exoteric, How He Explored Them

3. Purficatory Institution by Sufferings

4. Silence

5. Abstinence, Temperance, and Other Ways of Purification

6. Community of Estates

7. Admission or Rejection

8. Distinction

9. How They Disposed the Day

10. How They Examined Their Actions Morning and Evening

11. Secrecy

Part Three: The Doctrine of Pythagoras

Section I: Mathematics

Arithmetic

1. Number, Its Kinds: The First Kind, Intellectual in the Divine Mind

2. The Other Kind of Number: Sciential, its Principles

3. The Two Kinds of Sciential Number, Odd and Even

4. Symbolic Numbers

5. The Monad

6. The Duad

7. The Triad

8. The Tetrad

9. The Pentad

10. The Hexad.

11. The Heptad

12. The Ogdoad

13. The Ennead

14. The Decad

15. Divination by Numbers

Music

1. Voice, Its Kinds

2. First Music in the Planets

3. The Octochord

4. The Arithmetical Proportions of Harmony

5. The Division of the Diapason, According to the Diatonic Kind

6. The Canon of the Monochord

7. Instiution by Music

8. Medicine by Music

Geometry

1. Of a Point, Line, Superficies and Solid

2. Proportions

3. How He Determined the Stature of Hercules

Astronomy

1. The System of the Spheres

2. The Motions of the Planets

3. The Intervals and Harmony of the Spheres

4. Of the Planet Venus

Section II: Philosophy

Philosophy, Its Name, Definition, Parts, Method

Practical Philosophy: It's Parts

and First of Education

1. Institution, Silence, Abstinence

2. Fortitude

3. Temperance and Continence

4. Sagacity and Wisdom

Of Politics: The Other Part of Practical Philosophy

1. Common Conversation

2. Friendship

3. Worship of the Gods

4. Piety to the Dead

5. Reverence of Parents, and Obedience to the Law

6. Lawmaking

Theoretical Philosophy: Its Parts and First of the Science Concerning Intelligibles

1. Of the Supreme God

2. Of Gods, Daemons, Heroes

3. Of Fate and Fortune

4. Divination

Physic

1. Principles

2. Of the World

3. Of the Superior or Aetherial Parts of the World

Of the Sublunary Parts of the World

1. Of Living, and Animate Creatures

2. Of the Generation of Animate Creatures

3. The Soul: Its Parts and First of the Irrational Part

4. Of the Rational Part of the Soul: the Mind

5. Of the Transmigrationo of the Soul

6. The Separate Life of the Soul

Medicine

1. Dietetics

2. Therapeutic

Section III: Symbols

1. Pythagoras: His Symbolic Way of Teaching.

2. They Symbols of Pythagoras According to Iamblichus

3. An Explication of the Pythagorean Symbols by Imblichus

4. The Same Symbols Explained by Others

5. Other Symbols

6. The Golden Verses of Pythagoras

Part Four: Pythagorean Commentators

Of the Soul of the World, and of Nature by Timaeus the Locrian

An Explaination of the Pythagorean Doctrine by John Reuchlin

1. Of Pythagoras: His Way of Teaching, by Silence and Symbols

2. The Triple World

3. The Supreme World

4. The Intelligible World

5. The Sensible World

6. The State of the Soul after Death

7. Of the Pythagorean Transmigration

Glossary

Endnotes

Additional Notes to the Text

Bibliography

Backcover.

Notes:

"From the 1687 edition of The history of philosophy".

Includes bibliographical references (p. 399-409).

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ISBN:

0-89254-587-9

OCLC:

882770138