{"id":390,"date":"2021-03-08T22:26:01","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T22:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysteriumacademy.com\/?p=390"},"modified":"2023-02-04T02:32:41","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T02:32:41","slug":"greek-philosophy-schools-contributions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysteriumacademy.com\/greek-philosophy-schools-contributions\/","title":{"rendered":"Greek Philosophy Schools and their Contributions"},"content":{"rendered":"
For a period of several hundred years, starting in the 6th century BC, ancient Greece saw an\u00a0incredible flourishing of human discover and knowledge occurred in ancient Greece. Still regarded as the greatest philosophers to ever live, the scholars of this time dedicated their lives to expanding awareness on topics such as logic, virtue, reason, science, and more.<\/p>\n
Ancient Greece was home to several generations of philosophical schools, each with distinct contributions to philosophy. Beginning with Pythagoras in the 500s BC, who focused on math, and then later Socrates, followed by Plato and Aristotle. Following generations included the Cynics, Skeptics, and Stoics, each with very different ideas.<\/strong><\/p>\n There is great overlap in the doctrines of the different schools, but each was unique in its own way as well. In this article we are going to take a look at each of the most important philosophical schools of Ancient Greece.<\/p>\n Pythagoras of Samos, who lived from 580 BC \u2013 500 BC founded the Pythagorean school. According to him, mathematics is the most sacred and exact of all sciences. A group of distinguished philosophers belonged to this school, and they studied arithmetic, music, astronomy, and geometry. This school was one of the first to develop a community in which its members would assist each other in obtaining knowledge. Pythagoreanism is essentially a system of metaphysics which focuses upon numbers. They developed the theory of celestial harmonics, or \u201cmusic of the spheres\u201d. They placed great importance on the discipline of silence, since in moments of silence they could achieve their greatest contemplation.<\/p>\n Pythagoras was the son of a wealthy merchant and received a good education. Despite being such a towering figure in philosophy none of his writings, if he did even write any, have survived. What is known about him and his philosophy have been written by others. He is remembered as a powerful and charismatic public speaker, a pacifist, and a vegetarian who practiced celibacy to maintain spiritual power and clarity of thought. He was highly secretive, and probably studied in Egypt. His doctrine describes a 3000-year cycle of soul, in which it incarnates as a human, and then it enters the body of a dry land animal, then a sea animal, then a flying animal, and then back to being human. According to him, everything happens in cycles and nothing is new. He advocated virtuous, humane behaviour, and especially the truth of mathematics. Everything is number and math is a path to enlightenment. He is perhaps best known for the Pythagorean Theorem, a concept in math that shows that when a triangle has a right angle, and the sides of the triangle are made into squares, then the largest square is the same size as the other two squares put together.<\/p>\nThe Pythagorean School<\/strong><\/h2>\n