Pythagoras: His Life and Teachings

 Thomas Stanley, James Wasserman, J. Daniel Gunther e Manly P. Hall

 Ibis Press | 2010 | 352 páginas | epub | 2,5 Mb

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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
Foreword by James Wasserman and J. Daniel Gunther
Preface by Manly P. Hall
Introduction by Dr. Henry L. Drake
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
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 Servants
2. His Writings
23. His Disciples
24. The Succession of His School
PART TWO: DISCIPLINES AND DOCTRINES OF THE PYTHAGOREANS
1. The Great Authority and Esteem of Pythagoras
2. The Two Sorts of Auditors
3. Purificative 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
11. Secrecy
PART THREE: THE DOCTRINE OF PYTHAGORAS
Section I. Mathematical Sciences
The Mathematical Sciences Preparative to Philosophy
Arithmetic
1. Number Its Kinds: Intellectual
2. The Other Kind of Number: Sciential
3. The Two Kinds of Sciential Number
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
6. The Cannon of the Monochord
7. Institution by Music
8. Medicine by Music
Geometry
1. Of a Point, Line, Superficies and Solid
2. Propositions
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: Its 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
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 Transmigration 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. The Symbols of Pythagoras According to Iamblichus
3. Explication of the Pythagorean Symbols by Iamblichus
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 by Timaeus the Locrian
The Doctrine of Pythagoras by John Reuchlin
1. Of Pythagoras: His Way of Teaching,
2. The Triple Word
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 by J. Daniel Gunther
Bibliography