
	Philosophy and Culture Reference: Lechich N.D. Axiological Content of the Early Pythagorean Interpretation of Order // Philosophy and Culture. 2015. № 4. P. 533-543. URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=66464 Lechich N.D. Axiological Content of the Early Pythagorean Interpretation of Order Abstract: Eary Pythagorean cosmology focused on the philosophical idea of oder (τάξις). The main objective of the present research is to define to what extend the Pythagorean concept of τάξις was a revolutionary idea. In this article Lechich gives a definition of τάξις as the term used for describing order in ancient Greek philosophy and emphasizes axiological elements hidden in that term. The researcher 1) shows the difference in Alcman's and Anaximander's concepts of the world total, 2) extends the description of these differences in terms of early Pythagorean cosmology, and 3) compares the results of the present research to the ideas of other major Pre-Socratic philosophers. The researcher achieves the objectives of the research based on existing philological and historical critical analysis of Pre-Socratic fragments. Using the method of phenomenological analysis, the researcher tries to find mental phenomena-precedents in these fragments and at the same time avoid projecting definitions and concepts of modern sciences on these fragments. The novelty of the article is caused by the fact that the author makes a statement about Pythagorean interpretation of order having no precedents in ontology and axiology. According to the researcher, the tendency to project the idea of τάξις (which was developed by Plato later) on the concepts of more ancient philosophers has no reasonable grounds, mostly because such projection may create the wrong opinion that ancient philosophers had negative axiology of 'the shapeless'. Keywords: Greek philosophy, early Pythagorean school, Pre-Socratic philosophers, cosmos, universe, cosmology, world total, axiology, order, disorder, materia This article can be downloaded freely in PDF format for reading. Download article This article written in Russian. You can find original text of the article here . References 1. Rée Jonathan et al. Philosophy and its past. Hassocks: Harvester Press, 1978. 2. Most Glenn W. Alcman's «Cosmogonic» Fragment (Fr. 5 Page, 81 Calame) // The Classical Quarterly, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 1 (1987), 1–19. 3. Kahn Charles H. Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans: a brief history. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub, 2001. 4. Diels Hermann. Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, Griechisch und Deutsch / her. W. Krantz. Dublin & Zürich: Weidmann, 1974, T. 1–2. 5. Cornford F. M. Mysticism and Science in the Pythagorean Tradition // The Classical Quarterly, Vol. 16, No. 3/4 (1922), 137–150. 6. Burkert Walter. Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972. 7. Barnes, Jonathan. The Presocratic Philosophers. London: Routledge, 1982. 8. Khaydegger Martin. Izrechenie Anaksimandra, v: Razgovor na proselochnoy doroge: Izbrannnye stat'i iz pozdnego perioda tvorchestva. M.: Vysshaya shkola, 1991, 28–68. 9. Fragmenty rannikh grecheskikh filosofov, chast' I: Ot epicheskikh teokosmogoniy do vozniknoveniya atomistiki / pod red. A. V. Lebedeva. M.: Nauka, 1989. 10. Zhmud' L. Ya. Nauka, filosofiya i religiya v rannem pifagoreizme. SPb: Aleteyya, 1994. 11. Vernan Zhan-P'er. Proiskhozhdenie drevnegrecheskoy mysli. M.: Progress, 1988. 12. Gegel' G. V. F. Lektsii po istorii filosofii I–III. M.: Partiynoe izdatel'stvo, 1932. 13. Rorty Richard. The Historiography of Philosophy: Four Genres, v: Rorty Richard et al. (eds.). Philosophy in History: Essays in the Historiography of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. 14. Vlastos Gregory. Theology and Philosophy in Early Greek Thought // The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 7 (1952), 97–123.

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