Socrates and Pythagoras
Pythagoras:
Pythagoras was born in 569 BC in Samos, to Mnesarchus of Tyre and Pythias of Samos. Mnesarchus was a merchant and so Pythagoras had the opportunity to visit many lands as a child traveling with his father. Besides these facts there is very little that is known of the childhood of Pythagoras. There is no doubt that he would have been properly educated and there is evidence to show that Pythagoras was influenced by three philosophers the most important of which was Pherkydes. Another person to influence his life was Thales and it is believed that it was Thales that stoked the interest of mathematics in Pythagoras. The pupil of Thales Anaximander is believed to have contributed many ideas in geometry and cosmology that were to influence the views of Pythagoras. Pythagoras as a young man moved to Egypt and remained there till the Persians invaded Egypt and he was taken as a prisoner by the Persian.
In 520 BC Pythagoras returned to Samos from Babylon though how he escaped no one knows and shortly afterwards proceeded to Crete from where he learned the system of the laws there and returned to Samos. Pythagoras then went to Southern Italy. The exact date is disputed. Pythagoras formed his religious and philosophical school in Croton in Southern Italy and had many followers. The head of this society was Pythagoras and the inner circle was known as mathematikoi. The members of the mathematikoi lived on a permanent basis in the society and were vegetarians and maintained no personal possessions. Pythagoras was their teacher and the society was made up of strict rules. There is no clear evidence when Pythagoras though some historians take the year 469 BC as the year of his demise due to the changes that were seen in this society that could not have happened when he was alive. (Pythagoras of Samos)
The moral teachings of Pythagoras are in the seventy one lines that has acquired the title of golden words. These teachings require man to respect their own parents and gods and to lead a life of abstinence and to be prudent in thought and action. Pythagoras...
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