WHAT MAKES A PYTHAGOREAN PYTHAGOREAN?

Revista Brasileira de História da Matemática

John A.Fossa¹ 

[1] PPGECNM e PPGEd- UFRN;

关键词: Mathematics and Philosophy;    Pythagoreanism;    Theory of Proportion;    Doctrine of the Divided Line;   

DOI  :  10.47976/RBHM2010v10n20165-172

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The present paper characterizes the Pythagoreans as those thinkers that maintain that the lógos of the universe is revealed by a mathematical theory of proportion. Part of what is thereby revealed, according to the Pythagoreans, is the transmigration of the soul and the need to organize the mesocosm (society) in a manner isomorphic to the macrocosm (universe). It is also suggested that the organization of Pythagorean societies may have been the inspiration for Plato’s doctrine of the Divided Line.

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