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“Pythagoras (c.570-c.495 BCE).” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 21 April 2001. Web. 7 Feb. 2013. |
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Pythagoras founded at Kroton ( in Southern Italy) a society which used to be a religious community and a scientific school
Such a body was bound to excite jealousy and mistrust, and we hear of many struggles. Pythagoras himself had to flee from Kroton to Metapontion, where he died.
One of his arguements were that there were three kinds of men
Taught the doctrine of rebirth or transmigration |
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Pythagoras, (born c. 570 bce, Samon, Ionia [Greece]—died c. 500–490 bce, Metapontum, Lucanium [Italy]), |
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Pythagoras argued that there are three kinds of men just as there are three classes of strangers who come to the Olympic Games.
1st the lowest are those that come only to buy and sell
2nd the ones next above them are those who come to compete.
Best of all are those who simply come to look on. |
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Huffman, Carl, "Pythagoras", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Fall 2011 Edition. Edward N. Zalta (ed.). The Metaphysics Lab Center for the Study of Language and Information. 8 Aug. 2011. Web. 7 Feb. 2013. |
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Pythagoras was considered one of the most famous and controversal ancient Greek philosophers
He lived from ca. 570 to ca. 490 BCE
He lived on island of Samos in the early part of his life
At the age of forty, he moved to the city of Kroton in Southern Italy where most of his philosophized activity ocured.
He did not write anything |
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- He became a Greek philosophical figure and many narratives were made supporting him
- pgh 2:According to this he was not famous for being a mathematician and scientist but for his theory on what happened to the soul after death and he established a way on how to live life.
- pgh 3: Pythagoras was famous for his thoughts. He thought up a theory that the moon and sun were heaven and that the planets were hell. He also thought that thunder was meant to frighten the souls that were punished in Tartaurus. |
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"Pythagoras". Encyclopedia Britannica. Encyclopedia Britannica Online.Encyclopedia Britannica Inc., 2013. Web. 09 Feb. 2013. |
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Greek philosopher, mathematician, and founder of the Pythagorean brotherhood that,
Pythagoras emigrated to southern Italy about 532 bce, apparently to escape Samos’s tyrannical rule, and established his ethico-political academy at Croton (now Crotone, Italy).
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Papadopoulos, Athanase. “Mathematics And Music Theory: From Pythagoras To Rameau.” Mathematical Intelligencer24.1 (2002): 65. Academic Search Premier. Web. 7 Feb.2013.
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Pythagoras is a music theorist
Music was considered mathematics |
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“Pythagoras.” Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6Th Edition (2011): 1.Academic Search Premier. Web. 7 Feb.2013. |
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- pg. 10: Pythagoras was the founder of a Pythagorean school
- Little is know of Pythagoras's life
- The Pythagoreans were mathematicians and geometricians
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Pythagorean Question: What were the beliefs and practices of Pythagoras?
- No one knows the beliefs or practices of Pythagoras because he never documented anything.
- Only pieces of information that was written about 150 years after his death, are still around.
- A lot of people disagree on things about Pythagoras so they would not be able to come up with a conclusion on what Pythagoras beleived in
- After Pythagoras died, books were forged in the name of Pythagoras which really had Plato and Aristotle's ideas in it. |
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