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Moderatus of Gades

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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A Greek philosopher of the NeoPythagorean school, contemporary with Apollonius of Tyana. He wrote a great work on the doctrines of the Pythagoreans, and tried to show that the successors of Pythagoras had made no additions to the views of their founder, but had merely borrowed and altered the phraseology. He has been given a fictitious importance by recent commentators, who have regarded him as the forerunner of the Alexandrian School of philosophy. Zeller has shown that the authority on which this view is based is entirely unsound. Moderatus is thus left as an unimportant though interesting representative of a type of thought which had almost disappeared since the 5th century B.C.

Stobaeus, Eclogae, p. 3, preserves a fragment of his writings.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Moderatus of Gades'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​m/moderatus-of-gades.html. 1910.
 
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