BEST Inspiring Quotes by PYTHAGORAS which are worth listening to | Pythagoras best quotes. #5
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Date: 27/07/2022

One of the most famous and controversial ancient Greek philosophers, Pythagoras has lived since about 570. In 490 BC he spent his early days on the island of Samos, off the coast of modern Turkey. However, at the age of 40 he emigrated to the southern Italian city of Croton, where most of his philosophical work was done. Pythagoras wrote nothing, nor did he have a detailed explanation of his ideas written by contemporary people. In the 1st century BC, it was also popular to portray Pythagoras in a less historical way as a semi-sacred person who created everything that fits the Greek philosophical tradition, including many of Plato's and Aristotle's mature ideas. .. To support this view, many treatises have been tampered with in the names of Pythagorean and other Pythagoreans. 
 Therefore, the Pythagorean problem is how to boost this false glory of Pythagoras and  determine what the historic Pythagorean actually thought and did. To accurately assess Pythagoras' performance, it is important to rely on the earliest evidence before the later distortions of  tradition appear. The popular modern image of Pythagoras is that of a master mathematician and scientist. The early evidence shows, however, that, while Pythagoras was famous in his own day and even 150 years later in the time of Plato and Aristotle, it was not mathematics or science upon which his fame rested. Pythagoras was famous (1) as an expert on the fate of the soul after death, who thought that the soul was immortal and went through a series of reincarnations; (2) as an expert on religious ritual; (3) as a wonder-worker who had a thigh of gold and who could be two places at the same time; (4) as the founder of a strict way of life that emphasized dietary restrictions, religious ritual and rigorous self discipline. 
 It remains controversial whether he also engaged in the rational cosmology that is typical of the Presocratic philosopher/scientists and whether he was in any sense a mathematician. The early evidence suggests, however, that Pythagoras presented a cosmos that was structured according to moral principles and significant numerical relationships and may have been akin to conceptions of the cosmos found in Platonic myths, such as those at the end of the Phaedo and Republic. In such a universe, the planet is considered a tool of God's revenge (the "Hound of Persephone"), the sun and moon are  blessed islands that we can go to if we live a good life, and thunder is the soul. You will be punished with Tartarus, which helped to scare you. It seems that celestial bodies also moved according to mathematical relationships that determine matching pitches, producing celestial music that evolved into "harmonic spheres" in  later traditions. It is doubtful that Pythagoras himself thought  of the sphere, and that the mathematics of celestial movements had not been elucidated in detail.
The Pythagoras universe was developed in a more scientific and mathematical direction by  Philologues and Archytas, the successors of the Pythagoras tradition. Pythagoras foretold a new, more optimistic view of the fate of the soul after death, and succeeded in establishing a way of life that was fascinating for its rigor and discipline and attracted many loyal believers to him.
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