GRICE ED IPPASO: DA CROTONE A METAPONTO -- ROMA -- FILOSOFIA ITALIANA -- LUIGI SPERANZA

Grice ed Ippaso: da Crotone a Metaponto -- Roma – filosofia italiana – Luigi Speranza (Metaponto). Filosofo italiano. Ippaso was one of the early followers of Pythagoras. He seems to have been particularly interested in mathematics and musical theory. His name is usually connected with the division of the Pythagoreans into two schools – the akousmatikoi, or hearers, and the mathematikoi, or learners. The precise difference between these two grous is unclear and disputed, but both claimed to stay true to the teachings of Pythagoras. However, one interpretation of the groups’s names is that the akousmatikoi kept strictly what what Pythagoras HAD ACTUALLY SAID, whereas the mathematikoi sought to take his ideas further. Another is that the akoustikoi were content with the practical side of the sect’s teachings, while the mathematikoi were more inclined to theorise. In any event, it seems Ippaso was a member of, and perhaps the first leader of, the mathematikoi. It is said that he died at sea as a result of daring to reveal secrets of Pythagorean geometry. Ippaso.