The pitagoric origins of the philosophical method: the use of archaí as methodological principles in Philolaus
Keywords:
arché, aitÃai, pythagoreansAbstract
The history of the term arché, seems to point to a Platonic-Aristotelian redefinition of an archaic concept, initially related to the Ionic use of the term to express a chronological starting point. Aristotle gives a new sense to archaí, which receive the meaning of principles to explain the real, and, in this sense, are equivalent to the term aitiai. This paper intends to demonstrate that, before Aristotle, this aspect can already be observed in the Hippocratic Corpus and the fragments of Philolaus.
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