Power, Paideia and
Pythagoreanism. Greek Identity, Conceptions of the Relationship Between Philosophers and Monarchs and Political Ideas in Philostratus' Life of Apollonius, Amsterdam: J.C.
15), fails to adopt the same care when dealing with what he indifferently refers to as "
Pythagoreanism." I would have welcomed a sharper distinction between the immutability that characterizes the Pythagorean-Platonic model, and the motion and expressivist individuality that defines post-nominalist worldviews (cf.
Just Timaeus would be enough to prove Plato's life
Pythagoreanism; Plato ciphered in his dear Socrates his true master, Pythagoras.
These nineteen essays comment on
Pythagoreanism, its historiography, and its traditions.
And although it crops up in various chapters that deal with figures in the Platonic tradition, the significance of
Pythagoreanism is not emphasized, as it was by Armstrong, in a stand-alone chapter.
Pythagoreanism offered an attractive way of life for women.
From this period arithmetic and geometry under influences of
Pythagoreanism started to play irreplaceable role in Greek philosophy primarily because mathematics as opposed to philosophy was an exact science in which problems were posed in a clear and logical way and answers are clear and precise.
(1) In this paper, he asserts that Plato's works have a 12-part structure and that this structure can be interpreted musically, there is evidence for Plato's
Pythagoreanism in this musical structure, and ultimately that Plato's philosophy was 'fundamentally Pythagorean'.