Chapter 1: Aristotle on mathematical Pythagoreanism in the 4th century BCE -- Chapter 2: Hippasus of Metapontum and mathematical Pythagoreanism -- Chapter 3: Exoterism and the history of Pythagorean politics -- Chapter 4: Mathematical Pythagoreanism and Plato's Cratylus -- Chapter 5: What is wisest? Mathematical Pythagoreanism and Plato's Phaedo -- Chapter 6: The method of the gods: mathematical Pythagoreanism and discovery
Summary
Was Plato a Pythagorean? Plato's students and earliest critics thought so, but later scholars have been more skeptical. This book reconsiders this question by arguing that a specific type of Pythagorean philosophy, called 'mathematical' Pythagoreanism played a profound role in Plato's philosophy
