En la infancia de la filosofía
A wonderful approach to the legendary figure of Pythagoras and the origins of philosophy, from the hand of Víctor Gómez Pin.
It is said of the legendary figure of Pythagoras that he was a great mathematician to whom bold hypotheses in astronomy or music are attributed. But, furthermore, Pythagoras would have been, according to Cicero, the first to have used the adjective philosopher, which he applied precisely to himself. What does this mean? What does the status of philosopher add to the scientist Pythagoras?
To find an answer, the prestigious philosopher Víctor Gómez Pin goes back to the flourishing sea cities of Ionia (Miletus, Samos, Ephesus), where six centuries before our era the foundations on which philosophy was built were laid. In this book we thus witness the infancy of this discipline, a fortunate childhood in which questions were generated that are still fully valid today.
