Pythagoras and the doctrine of transmigration wandering souls /
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
c2009.
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| Series: | Continuum studies in ancient philosophy.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the poetic topos of the doctrine of transmigration
- Genealogy of the doctrine of transmigration
- Beyond mysticism and science : symbolism and philosophical magic
- The emergence of mystic cults and the immortal soul
- Philolaus and the question of pythagorean harmony
- The alleged critique of Pythagoras by Parmenides
- Between the earth and the sky : on the pythagorean divine
- The pythagorean bios and the doctrine of transmigration
- The path of the event
- The path of remembrance or return
- The platonic rupture : writing and difference
- Plotinus : the ascent of the soul toward the one
- Plotinus as neoplatonic mystic : letter to Flaccus
- Epilogue : the fate of the doctrine of transmigration.