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Women in Early Pythagoreanism
… roles. Consequently, the fact that the Pythagoreans founded their communities in Croton and further afield, and that in some respects these communities resembled ancient sects helps to explain why they opened their doors to the female gender to begin with. The third chapter discusses …
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Aristotle's Aporia about Being and the One: The Background, Discussion and Solution of a Metaphysical Dilemma
… two alternatives of the dilemma to Plato and the Pythagoreans on the one hand and to Empedocles and the physicists on the other. Crucially, it shows that Aristotle not only borrows from the Sophist the arguments which he levels against the pluralists, but also turns the Platonic critique of …
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Number symbolism in music : the harmony of the spheres and George Crumb's Makrokosmos, Volume I
The Pythagoreans, for whom certain numbers held a mystical significance, stressed the connection between music and mathematics. Their concept of the universe was of an integrated, well-ordered system, which expressed the rules of music and mathematics on earthly and planetary levels. This …