title: The Early Pythagoreans and the Political Development of Greece in the 6th–4th Centuries BCE
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metadata.value: Brovkin, Vladimir V.
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metadata.value: 2024-12-05T15:18:53Z
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metadata.value: 2024-12-05T15:18:53Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2024-06
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metadata.value: Brovkin V. V. The Early Pythagoreans and the Political Development of Greece in the 6th–4th Centuries BCE. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2024, vol. 40, issue 2, pp. 280–293. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2024.209 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2024.209
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/48119
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metadata.value: The paper deals with the question of the socio-historical conditionality of the political ideas
  of the early Pythagoreans. It is established that the philosophy of the early Pythagoreans reflected
  such traditional values of the polis as political activity, patriotism, collectivism. The
  weak manifestation of individualism among the Pythagoreans testifies to the existence in their
  worldview of an indissoluble connection between the polis and the citizen. The political ideas
  and way of life of the Pythagoreans were conditioned by the flourishing of the polis system
  in the 6th–4th centuries BCE. The desire of the Pythagoreans for political stability and moderation
  was associated with the idea of a great danger emanating from anarchy and tyranny.
  The fear of lawlessness contributed to the formation of Pythagoras and his followers’ idea of
  the importance of political loyalty. It was also found that in the political preferences of the
  early Pythagoreans manifested two tendencies — aristocratic and democratic. The aristocratic
  tendency manifested itself in the elitist nature of Pythagorean teaching, in adherence to aristocratic
  virtues and distrust of democratic practices. The democratic tendency was associated
  with the early Pythagoreans’ idea of equality as the basis of laws, justice and friendship. It was
  shown that the changes in the correlation of these tendencies in Pythagoreanism were also
  conditioned to the socio-historical development of Greece in the late archaic and classical periods.
  The predominance of the aristocratic tendency among Pythagoras and his disciples was
  associated with the dominance of the aristocracy in the Greek poleis of the 6th century BCE.
  The strengthening of the democratic tendency in the views of Archytas and, possibly, Lysis was
  due to the rapid development of democracy in the 5th–4th centuries BCE.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The reported study was funded by the Russian Science Foundation (RSF), project number 22-18-
  00025 “Ancient Mystery Cults and Greek Philosophy: Orphica, the Pythagoreanism, Hermetica, Platonism”.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 40; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Early Pythagoreans
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Pythagoras
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Lysis
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Archytas
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: politics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: democratic tendency
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: aristocratic tendency
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: values of the polis
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Early Pythagoreans and the Political Development of Greece in the 6th–4th Centuries BCE
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metadata.value: Article
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