Pythagoras Essay

Stars are a universal part of our human culture. Celebrities are compared to them, people reach for them and we try to shine like them but we often forget to actually look at them for what they are. Instead of becoming vain and trying to emulate something much grander than ourselves or be selfish and try to claim them as our own, we should be looking to the stars to remind us that we aren’t everything in this world. This is the message that David Wagoner tries to get across in his poem, The…

It’s a well-known scenario: A bus is rushing out of control toward a person and a dog. You only have time to save either the dog or the person, and the other will inevitably die. Who would you choose? In our society dominated with speciesism, the answer seems relatively obvious to most people: save the human, a member of our own species. However, it turns out that distinction may be blurring. According to a recent study by Topolski, 40.2% of participants chose to save their pet over a foreign…

In Bertrand Russell's words: “Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.” Math is a language of logic. It is a disciplined, organized way of thinking. There is a right answer; there are rules that must be followed. More…

Yet, according to Starchild, a NASA based company, the Pythagoras first proposed that the Earth was round in 500 B.C. Moreover, historians are certain in which educated people in Columbus’s time knew the Earth was round (Strauss). Columbus’s main objection in his expeditions was to find gold and slaves, not…

conformity; and instead pursue their personal believes and ideas. This will probably result in the individual being misunderstood, but as Emerson states, all great and famous people were once misunderstood: “Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.” (554). Hawthorne, on the other hand, has a very…

One of the most important aspects of art is continuity and change, in which certain imagery continues to be used across history, or is changed overtime. Art pieces from different time periods can be compared and contrasted with each other, taking into account symbols that have been transformed or are still present in both pieces. Two paintings that show a great amount of continuity and transformations are The Third of May by Francisco Goya, and The Oath of the Horatii. Goya and David’s paintings…

their works (Ta Neter Foundation). While these inventions and discoveries, along with many others, are revolutionary and have impacted humanity in unprecedented ways, they are given little to no place in today’s historical curriculum. The likes of Pythagoras and other European mathematicians are almost always taught first in school when discussing the history of math, but it seems that the true creators of early mathematics, the ancient Africans, are never…

Navarun Atraya, 20131778 1. Why does plato insist that philosophers must be kings? Discuss it in the context of the Socrates’ death. (10 points) Plato considered that knowledge is absolute power and that only the “best” should rule. Political rule should be the rule of knowledge. Plato’s definition of a philosopher-king was a king who would have a grasp of the true and enduring, would not fear death, would be fair-minded, gentle and sociable, brave, temperate, and would work to preserve the…

painting, it’s symbolizing the power behind the whole portrait. Two of the most intelligent thinkers are pictured in the center of the picture, Aristotle and Plato. Both of their philosophies were incorporated into Christianity. Also pictured in it is Pythagoras, who believed that the world was being controlled according to mathematical decrees. The mathematical laws that he followed were relevant with ideas of musical harmony. In his teachings, he believed that each of the planets produced a…

The Crucible was a play that was written by Arthur Miller in 1953. The Crucible was written in a time when paranoia rose in American society because of worries that the Soviet Union 's communist ways would infiltrate the United States. This led Arthur Miller to comment on this situation by comparing it to the Salem Witch Trials by writing The Crucible. In Arthur Miller’s play, he uses all of the definitions of the word, “Crucible” throughout his entire play. The one definition of the word,…