"pythagoreans" - 1 õppematerjal

History of philosophy

Things were undifferented mass, this mass is in motion. All things are always in motion. All life, including men came from fish. First humans came full-grown from fish's belly. Anaximenes All is aer (spirit or mist) - all things come from spirit or mist. Spirit is distilled liquor. From cloud- air, water, earth, fire- all comes from aer. Connection between spirit, mind and world 08.02.2012 Pythagoras (570-495 BC) and the Pythagoreans · Studied Mathematics (Pythagorean Theorem) · Made discoveries about music (sympathy of the strings, musical theory providing that there are hidden mathematical relations governing harmony) Political Theory: A Pythagorean was asked how one could give one's son the best possible education, to which he replied that one should make him citizen of a state with good laws (cited in Hegel)