Pythagoras

His Life and Teachings

By: Thomas Stanley, Manly P. Hall (Preface by), Henry L. Drake (Introduction by), James Wasserman (Editor), J. Daniel Gunther (Editor)

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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.

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Foreword	p. 11
Preface	p. 15
Introduction	p. 21
The Life of Pythagoras
The Country, Parents, and Time of Pythagoras	p. 41
His First Education and Masters	p. 45
How He Traveled to Phoenicia	p. 48
How He Traveled to Egypt	p. 49
How He Went to Babylon	p. 52
How He Returned to Samos	p. 55
Travels to Delos, Delphi, Crete, and Sparta	p. 57
How He Went to Olympia and Phlius	p. 59
How He Lived at Samos	p. 61
His Voyage to Italy	p. 62
His Arrival at Crotona	p. 67
His Oration to the Young Men	p. 69
His Oration to the Senators	p. 72
His Oration to the Boys	p. 75
His Oration to the Women	p. 76
His Institution of a Sect in Private and Public	p. 78
His Authority in Civil Affairs	p. 80
Wonders Related of Him	p. 86
His Death	p. 90
His Person and Virtues	p. 98
His Wife, Children, and Servants	p. 100
His Writings	p. 103
His Disciples	p. 109
The Succession of His School	p. 112
Disciplines and Doctrines of The Pythagoreans
The Great Authority and Esteem of Pythagoras	p. 117
The Two Sorts of Auditors	p. 119
Purificative Institution by Sufferings	p. 121
Silence	p. 122
Abstinence, Temperance, and Other Ways of Purification	p. 124
Community of Estates	p. 125
Admission or Rejection	p. 126
Distinction	p. 127
How They Disposed the Day	p. 130
How They Examined Their Actions	p. 132
Secrecy	p. 134
The Doctrine of Pythagoras
Mathematical Sciences
The Mathematical Sciences Preparative to Philosophy	p. 139
Arithmetic	p. 142
Number Its Kinds: Intellectual	p. 143
The Other Kind of Number: Sciential	p. 144
The Two Kinds of Sciential Number	p. 145
Symbolic Numbers	p. 146
The Monad	p. 149
The Duad	p. 151
The Triad	p. 153
The Tetrad	p. 155
The Pentad	p. 159
The Hexad	p. 161
The Heptad	p. 163
The Ogdoad	p. 165
The Ennead	p. 166
The Decad	p. 167
Divination by Numbers	p. 169
Music	p. 171
Voice, Its Kinds	p. 172
First Music in the Planets	p. 174
The Octochord	p. 176
The Arithmetical Proportions of Harmony	p. 177
The Division of the Diapason	p. 180
The Cannon of the Monochord	p. 181
Institution by Music	p. 182
Medicine by Music	p. 184
Geometry	p. 187
Of a Point, Line, Superficies and Solid	p. 188
Propositions	p. 191
How He Determined the Stature of Hercules	p. 194
Astronomy	p. 195
The System of the Spheres	p. 196
The Motions of the Planets	p. 200
The Intervals and Harmony of the Spheres	p. 202
Of the Planet Venus	p. 204
Philosophy
Philosophy: Its Name, Definition, Parts, Method	p. 205
Practical Philosophy: Its Parts; and First of Edication	p. 208
Institution, Silence, Abstinence	p. 209
Fortitude	p. 213
Temperance and Continence 213
Sagacity and Wisdom	p. 218
Of Politics: The Other Part of Practical Philosophy	p. 219
Common Conversation	p. 220
Friendship	p. 222
Worship of the Gods	p. 224
Piety to the Dead	p. 227
Reverence of Parents, and Obedience to the Law	p. 229
Lawmaking	p. 230
Theoretical Philosophy: Its Parts	p. 231
Of the Supreme God	p. 233
Of Gods, Daemons, Heroes	p. 233
Of Fate and Fortune	p. 234
Divination	p. 235
Physic	p. 237
Principles	p. 238
Of the World	p. 244
Of the Superior or Aetherial Parts of the-World	p. 246
Of the Sublunary Parts of the World	p. 248
Of Living, and Animate Creatures	p. 249
Of the Generation of Animate Creatures	p. 250
The Soul: Its Parts, and First of the Irrational Part	p. 253
Of the Rational Part of the Soul: The Mind	p. 254
Of the Transmigration of the Soul	p. 256
The Separate Life of the Soul	p. 260
Medicine	p. 261
Dietetics	p. 263
Therapeutic	p. 265
Symbols
Pythagoras: His Symbolic Way of Teaching	p. 267
The Symbols of Pythagoras According to lamblichus	p. 269
Explication of the Pythagorean Symbols by lamblichus	p. 273
The Same Symbols Explained by Others	p. 285
Other Symbols	p. 291
The Golden Verses of Pythagoras	p. 295
Pythagorean Commentators
Of the Soul of the World by Timaeus the Locrian	p. 301
The Doctrine of Pythagoras	p. 312
Of Pythagoras: His Way of Teaching	p. 312
The Triple Word	p. 314
The Supreme World	p. 316
The Intelligible World	p. 321
The Sensible World	p. 324
The State of the Soul after Death	p. 327
Of the Pythagorean Transmigration	p. 329
Glossary	p. 333
Endnotes	p. 337
Additional Notes to the Text	p. 367
Bibliography	p. 399
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