doctoralThesis
Eram realmente pitagórico(a)s os homens e mulheres catalogado(a)s por Jâmblico em sua obra Vida de Pitágoras?
Fecha
2010-10-25Registro en:
SILVA, Josildo Jose Barbosa da. Eram realmente pitagórico(a)s os homens e mulheres catalogado(a)s por Jâmblico em sua obra Vida de Pitágoras?. 2010. 185 f. Tese (Doutorado em Educação) - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2010.
Autor
Silva, Josildo Jose Barbosa da
Resumen
Pythagoras was one of the most important pre-Socratic thinkers, and the movement he
founded, Pythagoreanism, influenced a whole thought later in religion and science.
Iamblichus, an important Neoplatonic and Neopythagorean philosopher of the third century
AD, produced one of the most important biographies of Pythagoras in his work Life of
Pythagoras. In it he portrays the life of Pythagoras and provides information on
Pythagoreanism, such as the Pythagorean religious community which resembled the cult of
mysteries; the Pythagorean involvement in political affairs and in the government in southern
Italy, the use of music by the Pythagoreans (means of purification of healing, use of
theoretical study), the Pythagorean ethic (Pythagorean friendship and loyalty, temperance,
self-control, inner balance); justice; and the attack on the Pythagoreans. Also in this
biography, Iamblichus, almost seven hundred years after the termination of the Pythagorean
School, established a catalog list with the names of two hundred and eighteen men and sixteen
women, supposedly Pythagoreans of different nationalities. Based on this biography, a
question was raised: to what extent and in what ways, can the Pythagoreans quoted by
Iamblichus really be classified as Pythagoreans? We will take as guiding elements to search
for answers to our central problem the following general objectives: to identify, whenever
possible, which of the men and women listed in the Iamblichus catalog may be deemed
Pythagorean and specific; (a) to describe the mystery religions; (b) to reflect on the
similarities between the cult of mysteries and the Pythagorean School; (c) to develop criteria
to define what is being a Pythagorean; (d) to define a Pythagorean; (e) to identify, if possible,
through names, places of birth, life, thoughts, work, lifestyle, generation, etc.., each of the
men and women listed by Iamblichus; (f) to highlight who, in the catalog, could really be
considered Pythagorean, or adjusting to one or more criteria established in c, or also to the
provisions of item d. To realize these goals, we conducted a literature review based on ancient
sources that discuss the Pythagoreanism, especially Iamblichus (1986), Plato (2000), Aristotle
(2009), as well as modern scholars of the Pythagorean movement, Cameron (1938), Burnet
(1955), Burkert (1972), Barnes (1997), Gorman (n.d.), Guthrie (1988), Khan (1999), Mattéi
(2000), Kirk, Raven and Shofield (2005), Fossa and Gorman (n.d.) (2010). The results of our
survey show that, despite little or no availability of information on the names of alleged
Pythagoreans listed by Iamblichus, if we apply the criteria and the definition set by us of what
comes to be a Pythagorean to some names for which we have evidence, it is possible to
assume that Iamblichus produced a list which included some Pythagoreans