#Pythagoreanism

[aboutanancientenquiry]

Carl A. Huffman (editor) A History of Pythagoreanism, Cambridge University Press, 2014

"This is a comprehensive, authoritative and innovative account of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism, one of the most enigmatic and influential philosophies in the West. In twenty-one chapters covering a timespan from the sixth century BC to the seventeenth century AD, leading scholars construct a number of different images of Pythagoras and his community, assessing current scholarship and offering new answers to central problems. Chapters are devoted to the early Pythagoreans, and the full breadth of Pythagorean thought is explored including politics, religion, music theory, science, mathematics and magic. Separate chapters consider Pythagoreanism in Plato, Aristotle, the Peripatetics and the later Academic tradition, while others describe Pythagoreanism in the historical tradition, in Rome and in the pseudo-Pythagorean writings. The three great lives of Pythagoras by Diogenes Laertius, Porphyry and Iamblichus are also discussed in detail, as is the significance of Pythagoras for the Middle Ages and Renaissance."

[st3ll4rw4v3]

shoutout to my philosophy teacher, who once, i was having a panic attack and decided to ask me an "easy question", except she forgot to specify it was about the Pythagoreans, and asked me " what's the body? " and i fucking yelled

[chthonic-sorcery]

[porphurios]

The verses and the image of the Pythagorean Y (Upsilon) contain a challenge to students of classical and esoteric philosophy, as well as to mystics of every religion.

Of uncertain authorship, ascribed in a vague way to “Maximinus”, the verses have also been falsely ascribed to Virgil. Yet they are certainly ancient, and the main idea in them belongs to universal wisdom and literature.

They say:

“The Pythagoric Letter two ways spread,

Shows the two paths in which Man’s life is led.

The right hand track to sacred Virtue tends,

Though steep and rough at first, in rest it ends;

The other broad and smooth, but from its Crown

On rocks the Traveller is tumbled down.

He who to Virtue by harsh toils aspires,

Subduing pains, worth and renown acquires;

But who seeks slothful luxury, and flies,

The labor of great acts, dishonored dies.”

[ciltilladeltilla]

A quasi-Pythagorean cult earns staying power, and mathematics enters common culture as a side-effect of standardized music. This produces a culture where we'd be looked at funny for supposing a difference between inventing and discovering something, one with instruments and wagers where we might expect theorems and conjectures, and where proving a statement is viewed as a quintessentially performative act.

The learned are expected to master something among the five classes of instrument, but apprenticeship gives way to dabbling and hybridization the more community pools in one area. For many this is simply aesthetic, a sign of one's pedigree. Skill level is marked by demonstrating certain facts with one's tools, analogous to how practiced musicians can execute études. The million-dollar, world-class proofs are sometimes kept secret entirely, just so the powerful can see when a prodigy is really walking in the footsteps of the Greats. If you managed to steal one of these safeguarded proofs and make sense of it, the composition would look like this.

Beneath this system, each class of instruments bears in it a certain outlook on patterns in the world and our capacity to find and understand them, and people who specialize in one lose some ability to 'speak the language' of the others. Certain combinations of these people are highly valuable because they're specialized across so many areas, but it's hard to make them gel; plenty of bright-eyed pupils attempt to form one only to learn how separate their social spheres really become as they specialize.

Additionally there are a small but consistent crop of outsider artists who dabble in nonclassical logics or half-baked combinations, and who try to weave the five competing system-types into a landscape, or the fingers of a higher-dimensional eschaton.

[croutoneater69]

restarting Pythagoreanism pls join

[soulsinnerstatues]

According to Hierocles, when we encounter a position that we know is incorrect, we receive the benefit of being able to reflect on how we escaped the error.

Of course, when we reflect, there is a small chance that we will realize the other person was right and be embarrassed.

We've all been in both places.

Text reads: “We must be able to refute falsehoods and to do this without being vehement or haughty; rather we must pursue the truth with gentleness and refute falsehood with gracious methods of argumentation, ‘gently withdrawing’, as the poem says here. ‘And if some falsehood be told’, we should not concede that it is as said but listen without getting angry. For ‘take it lightly’ does not mean we have to assent to falsehood, but rather that we lend a tolerant ear and not be ‘perplexed’ if there are certain people who have fallen away from the truth to their harm.” Hierocles, Commentary on the golden verses of Pythagoras, trans. Hermann S. Schibli. Background is a keyboard, with hands typing.

[funeral]

Traversing the Paths on the Tetractys of Life

[sharply-dressed-fellow]

sometimes İ wish İ was a pythagorean in ancient greece. like they seemed pretty chill İ was born in the wrong generation

[historythingonlyicareabout]

Do any of you guys/gals/ whatever the gender nonbinary version of guys or gals is know why Pythagoras didn't like beans?

Honestly I haven't really found anything definitive and there wasn't many credible sources, mostly low effort listicles.

[d-stabilize]

[father-of-the-void]

Do not talk about Pythagorean matters without light.

Pythagorean dictum

[renegade-hierophant]

Plato compares philosophy with preparing for death (Phaedo 67cd) and its goal with becoming like god (Theaetetus 176b). This view of philosophy implies two doctrines central to the Platonic tradition: the immortality of the soul and the community (koinonia) of the human and divine. These ideas were not new with Plato nor did they die with him.

John F. Finamore, Foreword to The Golden Chain: An Anthology of Pythagorean and Platonic Philosophy by Algis Uždavinys, 2004

[13thpythagoras]

one of the other pythagorases is still alive, he’s a chill guy. a kind math prof back east

[rollypolymath]

The Meaning of Transmigration

The Pythagoreans had a concept which they called "transmigration" something which is commonly mistaken for the concept of reincarnation. Transmigration has nothing to do with the after life or anything to do with the metaphysical. Transmigration refers to the transference of one spirit into the body and mind of another. Think of this more akin to cognitive cloning. While behavior and comportment could be transferred, these were often deemed more of ornamental value than functionally useful. The Pythagoreans understood the value of knowledge and its cultivation, but they also recognized the difficulty which arose in verifying the transference of knowledge and its cultivation as, together, these two become a state of mind and together they are spirit.

The Pythagoreans sought to understand the human temperament to such a degree as to extrapolate from particular behaviors and responses the most effective means to communicating particular concepts, ideas and notions to any conscious individual whatsoever; to cultivate a mind of clarity and a mind of order through a profound connection with oneself and all others. It is only once you come to understand your mind and your body that you find all others of great and sincere interest.

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