Greek Philosophy 4.3: Pythagoras: Life's Music and Mathematics

Introducing Pythagoras and Pythagorean philosophy.
00:00 Introduction
01:55 The Island of Samos
05:05 Pythagoras' Life and Teaching in Ancient Memory
24:57 Pythagorean Community and Civic Philosophy
32:39 "Symbolic" Teaching
39:40 Pythagorean Philosophy: Key Ideas
43:18 Spiritual views: Metempsychosis (reincarnation of the soul)
47:18 Mathematical views: reality as number; the Tetraktys; music
1:02:00 Synthesis of Pythagoreanism
1:07:45 Aristotle's perspective on the Pythagoreans
1:09:26 Review of topics

Пікірлер: 11

  • @celer2010
    @celer20102 жыл бұрын

    I'm kinda frustrated with early academic treatments (Ritter, Ueberweg) that discount the biographical tradition and Pythagoras' travels in Phoenicia, Egypt, and Persia (detailed by Iamblichus) because they'd like to see Pythagoreanism as an innate development of the Greek mind rather than something imported from the East. Compared to those treatments that I've recently read, this was a breath of fresh air. This was excellent, thank you.

  • @ultrafeel-tv
    @ultrafeel-tv3 жыл бұрын

    Most interesting! Pythagoras seems to have had a pretty adventurous life!

  • @erniedavis5646
    @erniedavis56463 жыл бұрын

    Awesome teaching on Pythagoras. Thanks for making this public.

  • @JamesTrue
    @JamesTrue3 жыл бұрын

    Sooo good. Thank you for publishing/producing this!

  • @avaonalee
    @avaonalee2 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely beautiful. Thank you very much for this. Exactly what I was looking for !

  • @DelphicPhilosophy

    @DelphicPhilosophy

    2 жыл бұрын

    So glad to hear that, Ava: thanks for your feedback!

  • @fabianacaso9768
    @fabianacaso97682 жыл бұрын

    Great presentation! Thank you for it.

  • @rodenhuis2
    @rodenhuis22 жыл бұрын

    Great content! I dont say this often.

  • @sylvanhart
    @sylvanhart3 жыл бұрын

    Excellent presentation.

  • @PAMIR2001
    @PAMIR20013 жыл бұрын

    Maybe Pythagoras is a good example of a self-fulfilling prophecy, a phenomenon which we encounter frequently in ancient mythology. In a sense what Mnesarchus heard at Delphi was actually what he wished for his son. By providing adequate resources to his son he made the prophecy come true. Thank you for doing this.

  • @amateurrandomdude5870
    @amateurrandomdude58702 жыл бұрын

    Sir you earned a subscriber with this :D