How Long to Read Plato and Pythagoreanism

How Long Does it Take to Read Plato and Pythagoreanism?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 38 minutes to read Plato and Pythagoreanism by Phillip Sidney Horky

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Was Plato a Pythagorean? Plato's students and earliest critics thought so, but scholars since the nineteenth century have been more skeptical. With this probing study, Phillip Sidney Horky argues that a specific type of Pythagorean philosophy, called mathematical Pythagoreanism, exercised a decisive influence on fundamental aspects of Plato's philosophy. The progenitor of mathematical Pythagoreanism was the infamous Pythagorean heretic and political revolutionary Hippasus of Metapontum, a student of Pythagoras who is credited with experiments in harmonics that led to innovations in mathematics. The innovations of Hippasus and other mathematical Pythagoreans, including Empedocles of Agrigentum, Epicharmus of Syracuse, Philolaus of Croton, and Archytas of Tarentum, presented philosophers like Plato with novel ways to reconcile empirical knowledge with abstract mathematical theories. Plato and Pythagoreanism demonstrates how mathematical Pythagoreanism established many of the fundamental philosophical questions Plato dealt with in his central dialogues, including Cratylus, Phaedo, Republic, Timaeus, and Philebus. In the process, it also illuminates the historical significance of the mathematical Pythagoreans, a group whose influence on the development of philosophical and scientific methods has been obscured since late antiquity. The picture that results is one in which Plato inherits mathematical Pythagorean method only to transform it into a powerful philosophical argument about the essential relationships between the cosmos and the human being.

How long is Plato and Pythagoreanism?

Plato and Pythagoreanism by Phillip Sidney Horky is 328 pages long, and a total of 84,624 words.

This makes it 111% the length of the average book. It also has 103% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Plato and Pythagoreanism Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 42 minutes to read Plato and Pythagoreanism aloud.

What Reading Level is Plato and Pythagoreanism?

Plato and Pythagoreanism is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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