title: Physis in the Pythagorean Tradition
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metadata.value: Zhmud, Leonid
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-07-10T18:23:22Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-07-10T18:23:22Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Leonid Zhmud. Physis in the Pythagorean Tradition. Philologia Classica 2018, 13(1), 50–68.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu20.2018.104
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/10385
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metadata.value: This paper discusses the notion of physis in the fragments of the Pythagoreans Philolaus of
  Croton and Archytas of Tarentum. Building on the twentieth-century discussion of the two
  basic meanings of physis, ‘growth’ and ‘being’ (section 2), it argues that Philolaus was most
  probably the author of the first treatise entitled Περὶ φύσεως, as the first-century BC writer
  Diogenes of Magnesia testifies. The remaining evidence on Presocratic books entitled Περὶ
  φύσεως is late and unreliable (section 3). ἁ φύσις in Philolaus B 1 and 6 denotes ‘all that exists’;
  the Pythagorean speaks of physis in a generalized collective sense as of everything that came
  into being and exists in the world-order (section 4). As distinct from Philolaus, Archytas did
  not develop a doctrine of principles, and his epistemology was not constrained by metaphysical
  presuppositions. Archytas B 1 considers physis from both cosmological and epistemological
  points of views, as ‘the nature of the whole’ that is available to human cognition. Without
  setting any conditions or limitations to this process, as Philolaus did, he reinforces the latter’s
  declaration that “all the things that are known have number” (B 4) by making four Pythagorean
  mathēmata the principal cognitive tools for scientific enquiry into nature (section 5).
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 13; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Philolaus of Croton
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Archytas of Tarent
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Pythagoren tradition
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: physis
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Physis in the Pythagorean Tradition
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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