When1: -440
When2: -400
Who: Philolaus
What: philosopher
Where: Thebes, Greece
works\ Bacchae or Followers of Bacchus [-440 to -400]; On setting [-440 to -400]
Detail: He lived -480 to -405 and was Pythagorean. Cebes and Simmias were his students at Thebes.
Epistemology
People can know only finite things.
Metaphysics
Numbers are elements of being, because they are finite, eternal, and indestructible, and their fixed and orderly relations determine music, geometry, and heavenly motions. The series of numbers to infinity represents space. Material objects are space shaped into geometric Forms. All harmony and order depend on unity, the number 1. Opposites derive from odd and even numbers. Odd means limited, good, and perfect. Even means infinite, bad, and imperfect. Natural-world cycles are copies of number properties.
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