Does Pythagoreanism Really Belong to Greek?

Sunkanna Velpula

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Does Pythagoreanism Really Belong to Greek?

Sunkanna Velpula

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Received: 31 December 2015 Accepted: 3 February 2016 Published: 27 April 2016

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Pythagoras of Samos was the founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism and also well known Philosopher and mathematician. We have very little reliable information about Pythagoras from the secondary sources because he personally wrote nothing though hecould inspire legends. That is why Aristotle also often referred to the Pythagoreans but not to Pythagoras as such. Historically Pythagoras is being treated as the first mathematician, the first philosopher and the first metempsychosist. But there are certain doubts on the authorship of Pythagoreanism. Is it really proposed by Pythagoras? Some believes that he was not the author of Pythagoreanism because the Pythagorean principle was very much present in 10^th century BC in China and 9^th century BB in India. This paper examines the evidences and tries to analyze the authorship of Pythagoreanism.

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DOI	10.11648/j.ijp.20160402.11
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Pythagoreanism, Divine-Fire, Divine-One, Bhāskara, Śulbasūtras, Baudhāyana, Orphic

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[1]	Metempsychosis is a philosophical term in the Greek language referring to transmigration of the Soul.
[2]	Roy Kenneth Hack, God in Greek Philosophy To the Time of Socrates (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969), p. 48.
[3]	Ibid, p. 50.
[4]	Ibid, p. 53.
[5]	Ibid, p. 53.
[6]	William Edward Hartpole Lecky, History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne, Vol. 1(New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1869), p. 347.
[7]	Charles H. Kahn, Pythagoras and Pythagoreans: A Brief History (Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2001), p. 147.
[8]	Raymond Martin & John Barresi, The Rise and the fall of Soul and Self (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008), p. 10.
[9]	William Edward Hartpole Lecky, History of European morals from Augustus to Charlemagne, Vol. 1 (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1869), p. 109.
[10]	Ibid, p. 167.
[11]	Eli Maor, The Pythagorean Theorem (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007), p. xi.
[12]	It was translated into English as “Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art.”
[13]	Eli Maor, The Pythagorean Theorem (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007), p. 64.
[14]	Frank J. Swetz and T. I. Kao. Was Pythagoras Chinese? (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1988), p. 66.
[15]	Ibid, p. 14.
[16]	Ibid, p. 14.
[17]	Eli Maor, The Pythagorean Theorem (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007), p. 67.
[18]	Paul Strathern, Pythagoras & his Theorem (London: Arrow, 1997), p. 23.
[19]	Edward Pococke, India in Greece; or, Truth in Mythology (London: John J. Griffin and Co., 1852), p. 353.
[20]	Ibid, p. 363.

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