希帕蒂娅

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希帕蒂娅

约355–415年

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她的著作已经失传，但她教导说，数学和天文学是通向柏拉图和普罗提诺哲学的一条道路。

定位

希腊化时期、罗马与古代晚期哲学 · 西亚与北非 · 科学, 形而上学, 认识论

数学家、天文学家，亚历山大城一所新柏拉图主义学校的领导者，415年被基督徒暴民杀害。她没有任何著作以其本人之名留存；她的学生辛奈西乌斯称赞她是哲学教师。

核心思想

亚历山大城的新柏拉图主义教学
以数学作为通向哲学之路
对丢番图和阿波罗尼奥斯的注释（已佚；痕迹或许保存在阿拉伯文本的丢番图著作中）

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影响

受影响于 2

柏拉图

受其影响 ✓
Hypatia taught Plato and Aristotle in Alexandria; the church historian Socrates says she headed the Platonist school descending from Plotinus (Ecclesiastical History VII.15). Socrates Scholasticus, Ecclesiastical History VII.15; Synesius, Letters; E. J. Watts, Hypatia (2017)
依据: 亦见于 Wikidata · Wikidata
柏拉图 › 公元前428—前348年
普罗提诺

受其影响 ✓
The church historian Socrates says Hypatia succeeded to the Platonist school derived from Plotinus; her own writings were mathematical, and her philosophical teaching is known through Synesius. Socrates Scholasticus, Ecclesiastical History VII.15; Synesius, Letters; E. J. Watts, Hypatia (2017)
依据: 亦见于 Wikidata · Wikidata · InPhO
普罗提诺 › 204–270

作品

约400年对丢番图《算术》的注释
一部已佚的注释，由《苏达辞书》证实；一些学者认为它的痕迹保留在丢番图的阿拉伯文版本之中。

立场

Hypatia belonged to the Alexandrian branch of Neoplatonism. Ancient sources credit her with commentaries on Diophantus’ “Arithmetica”, Apollonius’ “Conics” and Ptolemy’s astronomical tables; none survives under her name. Her teaching, as far as Synesius’ letters show it, led pupils through mathematics and astronomy to the contemplation of the divine, and it was open to pagans and Christians alike. Her death made her a symbol – for Enlightenment writers of reason destroyed by fanaticism, for others a feminist martyr – and much written about her is projection. What is secure is that she was the leading teacher of philosophy in Alexandria in her generation.

生平与背景

Hypatia (c. 355–415) was the daughter of the mathematician Theon of Alexandria and taught mathematics, astronomy and Platonic philosophy in the city, drawing pupils from across the eastern Mediterranean, among them the later bishop Synesius of Cyrene. In March 415, during a conflict between the prefect Orestes and bishop Cyril, she was seized by a Christian crowd and killed. Her birth year is uncertain; some scholars put it around 350 or 370.