Pythagoras

Before I start, let's get this straight: I don't math. So I sat down my friend Clara, who happens to be majoring in the mathematical arts, and subjected her to a reading of the entire seven pages devoted to Pythagoras in our little book. This is what we came up with together.

Pythagoras wanted to be able to explain the entire world by rules that he could understand. He had such a mathematical mind that the method he used to make sense of it all was numbers. From there, he was able to apply it to life, nature, and the kosmos.

So we started with the last aphorism, the one with the lists that looked like a first grader's exercise in recognizing opposites. Pythagoras was so insistent in applying his "rules" to understanding the world, that he took the things that are confusing about human nature, picked them apart, and then defined them. In the words of my own math nerd, Clara, "we like concrete definitions, things that are true and solid." Well there you have it folks, it took math to get the ball rolling on the purpose of philosophy.

At this point another friend from the realm of math joined us to make sense of aphorism 18. We decided that, apparently, Pythagoras doesn't math either. On the advice of the math kids in the room, "he needs to define limited and unlimited and be clearer"... and "he can't just say stuff." Although it did end with the redeeming comment, "and numbers, as I have said, constitute the entire universe."

In conclusion, based on the number of characters and words, (which are even), I will receive an unlimited grade on this assignment. And then multiply it by 10, because apparently that is the perfect number.