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Πέρας and Απειρον in the Pythagorean Philosophy.

Πέρας and Απειρον in the Pythagorean Philosophy. XII. and *: in the Pythagorean Philosophy* Von W. A. Heidel, Iowa College, Grinnell.. . . The question s to the root of Pythagoreanism has occupied scholars for a Century, but does not yet seem to have reached a definite conclusion. The divergencies of opinion are not such, however, s to make an understanding appear hopeless. Among those who have addressed themselves to this problem we may especially mentipn Schleiermacher, Ritter, Brandis, Heyder, and Zeller; and if in the following discussion account is taken chiefly of the views of the last mentioned, it is both because they are more generally kriown, and because they deserve more consideration. We may begin by granting two propositions rightly insisted upon by Zeller: first, Pythagoreanism owed its origin to an ethicoreligious interest; second, the Pythagorean philosophy was, in its first intention, addressed primarily to the explanation of physical phenoinena, and only secondarily concerned itself with problems of theoretical ethics. We have in these propositions a Statement of what appears to me to be the actual truth, but not in sufftcient detail to afFord a satisfactory account of the facts. It is not a new observation in the history of philosophy that ethical http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie de Gruyter

Πέρας and Απειρον in the Pythagorean Philosophy.

Heidel, W. A.
Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie , Volume 14 (3) – Jan 1, 1901
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XII. and *: in the Pythagorean Philosophy* Von W. A. Heidel, Iowa College, Grinnell.. . . The question s to the root of Pythagoreanism has occupied scholars for a Century, but does not yet seem to have reached a definite conclusion. The divergencies of opinion are not such, however, s to make an understanding appear hopeless. Among those who have addressed themselves to this problem we may especially mentipn Schleiermacher, Ritter, Brandis, Heyder, and Zeller; and if in the following discussion account is taken chiefly of the views of the last mentioned, it is both because they are more generally kriown, and because they deserve more consideration. We may begin by granting two propositions rightly insisted upon by Zeller: first, Pythagoreanism owed its origin to an ethicoreligious interest; second, the Pythagorean philosophy was, in its first intention, addressed primarily to the explanation of physical phenoinena, and only secondarily concerned itself with problems of theoretical ethics. We have in these propositions a Statement of what appears to me to be the actual truth, but not in sufftcient detail to afFord a satisfactory account of the facts. It is not a new observation in the history of philosophy that ethical

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