Practice question · Select all that apply
Which were features of the Pythagorean community?
Hints
- Three describe the community; one inverts its central practice.
- Mathematics was pursued AS purification, not against it.
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- B. A requirement of secrecy about doctrines
- C. Communal property and dietary restrictions
- D. Belief in the transmigration of souls
Why
Metempsychosis, communal life and secrecy are all attested. Mathematics was not a distraction from the religious project, it was the project, pursued as a way of ordering the soul through understanding proportion.
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