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Philosophy Ancient:     more books (100)

The Nicomachean Ethics (Great Books in Philosophy) by Aristotle, 1987-02 Readings in Philosophy of Religion: Ancient to Contemporary The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man: An Essay of Speculative Thought in the Ancient Near East (Oriental Institute Essays) by Henri Frankfort, H. A. Frankfort, et all 1977-04-15 Early China/Ancient Greece: Thinking Through Comparisons (Suny Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture) Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault by Pierre Hadot, 1995-09-06 Essays in Ancient and Modern Philosophy (Essay index reprint series) by H. W. B. Joseph, 1974-06 The Presocratics After Heidegger (S U N Y Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy) Aristotle's Ethics as First Philosophy by Claudia Baracchi, 2007-12-17 Inference from Signs: Ancient Debates about the Nature of Evidence by James Allen, 2008-09-15 The Consolation of Philosophy: Boethius by Richard H. Green, 1962-01-11 Philosophy and Writing (Inside Ancient China) by Susan Whitfield, 2009-01 Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Summer 2004 Volume XXVI: Summer 2004 The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Political Thought (Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World) Anthology of Ancient Greek Popular Literature

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101. David Sedley (ed.) - Oxford Studies In Ancient Philosophy: Volume XX - Reviewed
     John E. Sisko reviews this collection of essays edited by David Sedley. From Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.  
     http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=1229

102. Nicholas White - Individual And Conflict In Greek Ethics - Reviewed By Paula Got
     Paula Gottlieb reviews Nicholas White s book. From Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.  
     http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=1175

103. CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pythagoras And Pythagoreanism
     Entry by William Turner. Concise summary of doctrines attributed to Pythagoras.  
     http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12587b.htm
     
     Extractions: Home Encyclopedia Summa Fathers ... P > Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism Pythagoras, the Greek philosopher and mathematician and founder of the Pythagorean school , flourished about 530 B.C. Very little is known about the life and personality of Pythagoras. There is an abundance of biographical material dating from the first centuries of the Christian era, from the age of neo-Pythagoreanism , but, when we go back to the centuries nearer to Pythagoras's time, our material becomes very scanty. It seems to be certain that Pythagoras was born at Samos about the year 550 or 560 B.C. , that he travelled to Magna in Southern Italy about the year 530, that he founded there a school of philosophy and that he died at Metapontum in Sicily . The detailed accounts of how he invented the musical scale, performed miracles , pronounced prophecies , and did many other wonderful things, belong to legend , and seem to have no historical foundation. Similarly the story of his journey into Egypt Asia Minor , and even to Babylon is not attested by reliable historians . To the region of fable belongs also the description of the learned works which he wrote and which were long kept secret in his school . It is certain , however, that he founded a school , or, rather, a religious philosophical society , for which he drew up a rule of life . In this rule are said to have been regulations imposing secrecy, a protracted period of

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