Monoimus According to Monoimus, the world is created from the Monad (or iota, or Yod meaning "one horn"), a tittle that brings forth the duad, triad, tetrad, pentad, hexad, heptad, ogdoad, ennead, up to ten, producing a decad. He thus possibly identifies the gnostic aeons with the first elements of the Pythagorean cosmology. He identifies these divisions of different entities with the description of creation in Genesis. This description from Hippolytus also corresponds to two versions of a text called Epistle of Eugnostos found in Nag Hammadi, where the same monad to decad relationship is described. (Eugnostos in turn, has apparent resemblances to the gnostic text The Sophia of Jesus Christ, where the word monad appears again.) Doctrine[edit] Monoimus is famous for his quote about the unity of God and man (from Hippolytus): This idea resembles the viewpoint of the much later Sufi Ibn Arabi, but no connection between the two is known. Attribution[edit] External links[edit]
en.m.wikipedia Athenaeus mentions a Terpsion as the first author of a Gastronomy,[5] giving advice as to the food from which it was advisable to abstain. A proverb of his is recorded: "eat now a tortoise's flesh or leave it alone", of which Athenaeus preserves more than one reading.[6] See also[edit] List of speakers in Plato's dialogues References[edit] ^ Suda, Socrates^ Plato, Phaedo, 59c^ Plato, Theaetetus.^ Plutarch, de Gen. Monad (philosophy) Philosophical concept of a most basic substance, or supreme being The Euclidean symbolism of the centered sphere also concerns the secular debate on the existence of a center of the universe. The idea of the monad is also reflected in the demiurge, or the belief of one supreme being that brought about the creation of the universe.
en.m.wikipedia Place in Greece Megara (; Greek: Μέγαρα, pronounced [ˈmeɣara]) is a historic town and a municipality in West Attica, Greece. It lies in the northern section of the Isthmus of Corinth opposite the island of Salamis, which belonged to Megara in archaic times, before being taken by Athens. Megara was one of the four districts of Attica, embodied in the four mythic sons of King Pandion II, of whom Nisos was the ruler of Megara. Early history[edit] View of the archaeological site In historical times, Megara was an early dependency of Corinth, in which capacity colonists from Megara founded Megara Hyblaea, a small polis north of Syracuse in Sicily. Megara is known to have early ties with Miletos, in the region of Caria in Asia Minor. Both cities acted under the leadership and sanction of an Apollo oracle. In the (second) Peloponnesian War (c. 431 – 404 BC), Megara was an ally of Sparta. The Megarians were proverbial for their generosity in building and endowing temples. Geography[edit]
Parmenides Parmenides of Elea (/pɑrˈmɛnɨdiːz əv ˈɛliə/; Ancient Greek: Παρμενίδης ὁ Ἐλεάτης; fl. 5th century BCE) was an ancient Greek philosopher born in Elea, a Greek city on the southern coast of Magna Graecia. He was the founder of the Eleatic school of philosophy. The single known work of Parmenides is a poem, On Nature, which has survived only in fragmentary form. In this poem, Parmenides describes two views of reality. In "the way of truth" (a part of the poem), he explains how reality (coined as "what-is") is one, change is impossible, and existence is timeless, uniform, necessary, and unchanging. Life[edit] On Nature[edit] Parmenides is one of the most significant of the pre-Socratic philosophers.[12] His only known work, conventionally titled On Nature, is a poem which has only survived in fragmentary form. Proem[edit] The Way of Truth[edit] For never shall this prevail, that things that are not are. There are extremely delicate issues here. For to be aware and to be are the same.
9780198239307.001 Abstract In the Theaetetus, Plato looks afresh at a problem to which, he now realizes, he had earlier given an inadequate answer: the problem of the nature of knowledge. What Plato has to say on this question is of great interest and importance, not only to scholars of Plato, but also to philosophers with wholly contemporary interests. This book is a sustained philosophical analysis and critique of the Theaetetus. The book provides a detailed examination of Plato's arguments and the issues that they raise. It adjudicates on rival interpretations of the text, and looks at the relations between this and ... In the Theaetetus, Plato looks afresh at a problem to which, he now realizes, he had earlier given an inadequate answer: the problem of the nature of knowledge. Keywords: Theaetetus, Plato, nature of knowledge, philosophical analysis, interpretations Bibliographic Information
Pythagoras Greek philosopher (c. 570 – c. 495 BC) Pythagoras of Samos[a] (Ancient Greek: Πυθαγόρας; c. 570 – c. 495 BC)[b] was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher, polymath, and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism. His political and religious teachings were well known in Magna Graecia and influenced the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, and, through them, Western philosophy. Modern scholars disagree regarding Pythagoras's education and influences, but most agree that he travelled to Croton in southern Italy around 530 BC, where he founded a school in which initiates were allegedly sworn to secrecy and lived a communal, ascetic lifestyle. The teaching most securely identified with Pythagoras is the "transmigration of souls" or metempsychosis, which holds that every soul is immortal and, upon death, enters into a new body. Life Early life There is not a single detail in the life of Pythagoras that stands uncontradicted. Reputed travels Alleged Greek teachers In Croton Family and friends Death Teachings
en.m.wikipedia Ancient Greek philosopher (c. 624 – c. 545 BC) Many regard him as the first philosopher in the Greek tradition, breaking from the prior use of mythology to explain the world and instead using natural philosophy. He is thus otherwise credited as the first to have engaged in mathematics, science, and deductive reasoning.[1] In mathematics, Thales is the namesake of Thales's theorem, and the intercept theorem can also be known as Thales's theorem. Life The main source concerning the details of Thales's life and career is the doxographer Diogenes Laërtius, in his third century AD work Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers.[2] While it is all we have, Diogenes wrote some eight centuries after Thales's death and his sources often contained "unreliable or even fabricated information The dates of Thales's life are not exactly known, but are roughly established by a few datable events mentioned in the sources. Ancestry and family Travels Egypt Babylon Historians Roger L. Sagacity Golden tripod
Square root of 2 "Pythagoras's constant" redirects here; not to be confused with Pythagoras number The square root of 2, often known as root 2, radical 2, or Pythagoras' constant, and written as Geometrically the square root of 2 is the length of a diagonal across a square with sides of one unit of length; this follows from the Pythagorean theorem. It was probably the first number known to be irrational. Its numerical value, truncated to 65 decimal places, is: 1.41421356237309504880168872420969807856967187537694807317667973799... The square root of 2 (number line not to scale). The quick approximation 99/70 (≈ 1.41429) for the square root of two is frequently used. History[edit] Babylonian clay tablet YBC 7289 with annotations. The Babylonian clay tablet YBC 7289 (c. 1800–1600 BC) gives an approximation of in four sexagesimal figures, 1 24 51 10, which is accurate to about six decimal digits:[1] . Computation algorithms[edit] There are a number of algorithms for approximating First, pick a guess, The value of .
global.oup 'What exactly is knowledge?' The Theaetetus is a seminal text in the philosophy of knowledge, and is acknowledged as one of Plato's finest works. Cast as a conversation between Socrates and a clever but modest student, Theaetetus, it explores one of the key issues in philosophy: what is knowledge? Though no definite answer is reached, the discussion is penetrating and wide-ranging, covering the claims of perception to be knowledge, the theory that all is in motion, and the perennially tempting idea that knowledge and truth are relative to different individuals or states. The inquirers go on to explore the connection between knowledge and true judgement, and the famous threefold definition of knowledge as justified true belief. This new edition uses the acclaimed translation by John McDowell. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe.