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This video is about the life and teachings of Pythagoras, the ancient Greek philosopher and sage who is famous for his theorem in geometry. The video explores the sources and myths about Pythagoras, his ideas about the soul, reincarnation, and the role of numbers and harmony in the cosmos. The video also discusses the pythagorean way of life, which involved following certain rules and rituals, and the legacy of pythagoras and his followers in later centuries. The video aims to show the different and fascinating aspects of pythagoras that go beyond his mathematical reputation.
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1. Pythagoras was a pre-Socratic philosopher who lived in the 6th to 5th centuries BC and is considered one of the earliest figures of his kind.
2. Pythagoras never wrote anything and most accounts of his life come centuries after he died, making it difficult to separate legend from historical truth.
3. Pythagoras was seen as a wonder-working sage who could perform superhuman feats and who led a group of followers that followed a certain pythagorean way of life, which included rituals and rules that seemed weird.
4. Pythagoras taught that the soul is distinct from the body, immortal, and reincarnates into another body after death, which was an unusual teaching at the time.
5. Pythagoras and his followers were associated with philosophical ideas involving numbers and the relationship and importance in reality and in the world, such as geometry, harmony, music theory, and cosmology.
6. Pythagoras and his movement were influenced by Egyptian wisdoms and followed the established Greek religion at the time, but formulated particular rules surrounding these religious rites.
7. Pythagoras practiced silence in a literal and a less literal sense, keeping his mouth shut about the secrets of his master's teachings, which were esoteric and only revealed to the initiated.
8. Pythagoras moved to the Greek city of Kroton in southern Italy where he gathered his first followers, but later relocated to another city called Metapontum where he died around 490 BC after his group came under attack.
9. Pythagoras is sometimes called the first philosopher and holds a very high status and role in the western philosophical tradition, influencing later thinkers like Plato and many others.
10. Pythagoras is also associated with a theorem in mathematics that states that in a right-angled triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides, although it is not certain that he actually discovered or proved it.