PHIL-230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Metempsychosis, Eleatics, Arche
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Anaximenes as capturing middle ground: what seems correct about water; water seems correct about apeiron synthesis of both, with air as a middle ground that captures the best of both. 2 subtypes of pythagoreans: akousmatikoi those who believe what they"ve heard . When the universe was perfectly ordered the sounds would be perfectly harmonized. Further, 2 b) the universe literally plays divine music. Even when we don"t have definite number, we understand quantity as numerical. Arithmos: count ; arithmetic is thus counting numbers. Underneath everything, underlies 1 (one): one is the underlying structure of number, and: the universe is mathematically structured: for pythagoreans, the structure of the world is math. Since numbers are naturally first, and things that are and come to be, and numbers seemed primary in nature, they proposed numbers to be the fundamental structure for the world of becoming.
