Essay - Pythagoras Needs Psychological Therapy for His Character and Personality Issues...

Pythagoras needs psychological therapy for his character and personality issues

T***** paper discusses the writer's belief that Pythagoras ***** psychological ***** to deal with his character ***** personality *****. There was one source used to complete this paper.

Pythagoras has always been considered the fa*****r of exact science. He was a man ***** brilliance and ***** who could draw a crowd of hundreds of people to listen to his mathematical lectures. Little is known ***** his life and accomplishments however if he were alive today ***** would qualify for ***** counseling based on his fear of beans.

***** he traveled the world ***** imparted wisdom, the man also picked up a very strange aversion to bean eating. He somehow got ***** idea that *****s were half bean and half human soul of those who had passed away on earth. He felt so str*****gly that this was the case and true that he ref***** to eat beans and urged his followers both mathematically and religiously to also abstain from the food(Accessed 3-27-2002).

***** is known about how he died but there is a rumor that enemy soldiers were chasing him. ***** ***** on the side ***** a field of be*****ns and he would rather be killed by the soldiers than run across the field to safety and trample all ***** those ***** souls(Accessed 3-27-2002). This would ***** ***** man for some counseling in this day ***** age and they would probably uncover several other quirks that he had. While he was a brilliant mathematician this ***** of his gives way ***** the possibility that he was schizophrenic or bipolar as well.

HOW DID PARMENIDES BRING MONISTS TO A DEAD END?

Dur*****g t***** *****ginning ***** philosophy the world of *****s was wide open to any c*****cept there was. Because n***** of the concepts had ***** explored ***** all possibilities. Many philosophers including Pla***** and Socrates were given carte blanche for thought because *****re were ***** few theories that ***** already been ***** as of yet. One style of thinking was the style of the monists. The monists believed ***** ***** things on earth, were of ********** substance, be they of mind or matter. It was a popul*****r concept that made things quite simple f***** ***** who *****lieved in ***** followed the philosophy. However, a philosopher named Parmenides brought the entire concept to a dead end when he detailed his understand*****g ***** life and matter(***** his*****ry of philosophy (http://nightshade.homep*****.dk/Philosophy.htm).Accordingto him, permanence was real and change was only an illusion in the mind. ********** ***** monist theory came to a halt and was no longer valued as a pl*****usible and possible theory to explain life and existence *****.

Works Cited

The history ***** philosophy (accessed 03-27-2002)
http://nightshade.homepage.dk/Philosophy.htm

Facts About Vegetables (Accessed 3-27-2002)