Plato and Pythagoreanism

Was Plato a Pythagorean? Plato''s students and earliest critics thought so, but scholars since the nineteenth century have been more skeptical. With this probing study, Phillip Sidney Horky argues that a specific type of Pythagorean philosophy, called "mathematical" Pythagoreanism, exercised a decisive influence on fundamental aspects of Plato''s philosophy. The progenitor of mathematical Pythagor...