Aristoxenus of Tarentum: The Pythagorean Precepts (How to Live a Pythagorean Life) An Edition of and Commentary on the Fragments with an Introduction
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- Aristoxenus of Tarentum: the Pythagorean Precepts (How to Live a Pythagorean Life)
- Aristoxenus of Tarentum: the Pythagorean Precepts (How to Live a Pythagorean Life)
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Fragments with Translation and Commentary
- 11 The Pythagorean Precepts: A Reconstructed Text in English
- 12 Fragment 1: Obedience to Parents and the Laws (34 W)
- 13 Fragment 2: The Importance of Order and Supervision for Every Age of Life (35 W)
- 14 Fragment 3: Desire (37 W)
- 15 Fragment 4: The Generation of Children (39 W)
- 16 Fragment 5: The Love of What is Beautiful and Fine (40 W)
- 17 Fragment 6: Learning Must be Willing (36 W)
- 18 Fragment 7: Luck (41 W)
- 19 Fragment 8: Human Nature is Prone to Excess and Needs the Supervision of the Gods, Parents, and Laws (33 W)
- 20 Fragment 9: On Opinion, the Training of Children and Young People, Pleasure, Desire, Diet, and the Generation of Children (38 W)
- 21 Fragment 10: The Appropriate and the Inappropriate in Human Interaction. On Starting Points and Rulers
- 22 Fragment 11: Friendship
- Appendices
- Concordance with the Fragment Numbers in Wehrli’s Edition
- Bibliography
- Select Index of Greek Words and Phrases Discussed
- Index Locorum
- General Index
19 - Fragment 8: Human Nature is Prone to Excess and Needs the Supervision of the Gods, Parents, and Laws (33 W)
from Part II - Fragments with Translation and Commentary
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 October 2019
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Book contents
- Aristoxenus of Tarentum: the Pythagorean Precepts (How to Live a Pythagorean Life)
- Aristoxenus of Tarentum: the Pythagorean Precepts (How to Live a Pythagorean Life)
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Fragments with Translation and Commentary
- 11 The Pythagorean Precepts: A Reconstructed Text in English
- 12 Fragment 1: Obedience to Parents and the Laws (34 W)
- 13 Fragment 2: The Importance of Order and Supervision for Every Age of Life (35 W)
- 14 Fragment 3: Desire (37 W)
- 15 Fragment 4: The Generation of Children (39 W)
- 16 Fragment 5: The Love of What is Beautiful and Fine (40 W)
- 17 Fragment 6: Learning Must be Willing (36 W)
- 18 Fragment 7: Luck (41 W)
- 19 Fragment 8: Human Nature is Prone to Excess and Needs the Supervision of the Gods, Parents, and Laws (33 W)
- 20 Fragment 9: On Opinion, the Training of Children and Young People, Pleasure, Desire, Diet, and the Generation of Children (38 W)
- 21 Fragment 10: The Appropriate and the Inappropriate in Human Interaction. On Starting Points and Rulers
- 22 Fragment 11: Friendship
- Appendices
- Concordance with the Fragment Numbers in Wehrli’s Edition
- Bibliography
- Select Index of Greek Words and Phrases Discussed
- Index Locorum
- General Index
Summary
Furthermore, he supposed that the rule of the gods was most efficacious for establishing justice and, on the basis of that rule on high, he determined the constitution, laws, justice and just acts. It is not a bad idea also to add what distinctions he made about individual cases.
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- Aristoxenus of Tarentum: The Pythagorean Precepts (How to Live a Pythagorean Life)An Edition of and Commentary on the Fragments with an Introduction, pp. 258 - 313Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019