Philosopher File: Pythagoras

The first lover of wisdom

Image: Head of Pythagoras, anon (after Raphael) 18th century. Public Domain CC0 Art Institute of Chicago.

Pythagoras was the first philosopher to talk about ‘philosophia’, or ‘the love of wisdom.’ He set up a philosophical community where he taught the transmigration of souls, and the centrality of mathematics for an understanding of the universe.

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