Also, through another philosopher in the reading named Pythagoras a presocratic philosopher we read he was philosopher who had great influence. He influenced his followers greatly. We read he required his followers as stated in “Culture and Values to lead chaste and devout lives and to uphold morality and the ideals of order and harmony as forces in the universe” (pg. 72). As a philosopher Pythagoras taught that the world was harmonious and as the mathematician he was he ended up teaching. That all possessions in the world could be positioned in an arrangement, well-ordered, and calculated. Presocratic ideas of the time survived as stated in “Culture and Values only in fragments of text, but in their focus on the human rather than the divine,
