Pythagoras Essay

Patrick Byrne Mrs. Draus Grade 10 English, Period 1 March 20, 2015 Stop Music Censorship Music provides a powerful form of expression and individualism that helps to entertain, relax, and calm the mind, while containing the power to help one detach themselves from everything that is taking place around them. The power of music scares some people who become afraid of the powerful potential it has to shape attitudes and beliefs. Music has existed for a long time, dating from about 1500BC and…

followers of Pythagoras. Here, Plato learned of Pythagoras’ discovery of the relation between number and musical harmony, and that correlation led him to believe that numbers were the key to understanding the Universe. He thought that everything could be explained in terms of numbers, which existed in its purest forms beyond the corporeal reality. Pythagoras’s theory had a significant effect on Plato who came to believe that the ultimate reality was abstract. What began as numbers with…

Ancient Studies Y4-L3 Greco-Roman Witches and Wizards Welcome back, students! I’m glad to see that you are all suitably dressed for this rather chilly weather. Fall is beautiful, but requires rather more scarves than one expects! No time for togas today, so let’s jump right into our lesson. During the ages of the Greco-Romans there were countless witches and wizards. Some of them lead normal lives, while many of them were extraordinary in the discoveries they made, the knowledge they passed on…

America is one of the most advanced countries, and stands as an example for the rest of the world. America is a place where the “. . . American is a new man. . .” incorporated into one system (“What Is an American?”). People come from all over the world to America and they all are under the same government. America is a place where “The world is here”, people from every country around the world live here (“America: The Multinational Society”). America is a very diverse place, since people are…

Edin Palmar PHI2010 F 10:00-10:50am Dr. Schuh Ch.1 Introduction 1. Explain some of the benefits a student may gain by studying philosophy. Studying philosophy helps one tackle the question of the “self” in the sense that it makes one really think of why they believe in something or why one does the things they do. This in turn will help us to “think, reason, and evaluate” critically in order to attain wisdom and intelligence, something not easily obtained due to the constant bombardment of the…

America has always been known for their consumption of large amounts of animal products. Whether its actual cuts of meat or dairy products, American companies are willing to use whatever they can from the animal to make the most products they can. So why all of the sudden is there an urge to be completely animal product free? Keep in mind, whether we like it or not veganism has been around for over thousands of years, and is becoming one of the most popular health transitions. As most of us…

During the High Renaissance (1490-1530), Raffaello Sanzio, also known as Raphael, was summoned to the Vatican by Pope Julius II and given the largest, most important commission of his life. He was asked to decorate the Papal Apartments, which included the Stanze Della Segnatura. The School of Athens by Raphael created in 1510 was to depict worldly (Greek) and spiritual (Christian) thinking (Slack, 2017). This painting represents all the greatest mathematicians, philosophers and scientists from…

“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.” Written by Ralph Waldo Emerson. I agree with what Emerson has to say about being misunderstood, because nobody understood Edison and his theories he had, but look at him, he ended up creating the light bulb and allowing light during the night. I believe it is…

Next we will have a look at a contribution to the Historicity of Jesus from the writings of Lucian of Samosata. Lucian He was a second century Romano-Syrian satirist, whose writings were in Greek. Lucian was known for mocking and this ironically added insight as well as confirmation to the historicity of Jesus. The Christians, you know, worship a man to this day — the distinguished personage who introduced their novel rites, and was crucified on that account. You see, these misguided creatures…

The ancient Greeks have shaped the modern world and established the building blocks for Western Civilization. Due to the conquest of Alexander the Great and the later adoption of certain cultural attributes into Roman life, Classical Greek architecture and philosophy still permeates within the modern world. Even the three orders of ancient Greek column design (Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian) can be seen on government buildings and private residences throughout the United States and the nations…