Pythagoreanism

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c. 530 BC – 300 BC · Europe · origin: Croton

The world is ordered by number and harmony, and the soul is immortal and reborn

Key ideas

• Number underlies all things
• Musical harmony mirrors the order of the cosmos
• Transmigration of souls and a strict communal way of life
• Mathematics as a way of purifying the soul

Key thinkers

• Pythagoras (founder) — Greek philosopher and mathematician, 570 BC–495 BC

Meanwhile elsewhere

• Milesian school Middle East
• Confucianism Asia
• Buddhist philosophy Asia
• Mohism Asia
• Taoism Asia
• Legalism Asia

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