The Kinship of Pythagoras and George Costanza
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Last night in my course on Sources of Great Western Ideas our topic was the immortal soul in Pythagoras and Plato. We based our discussion of Pythagoras on a fragment from Porphyry’s Vita Pythagorae, 19 (quoted in Kirk and Raven, The Presocratic Philosophers, p. 238 from Diels and Kranz, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 14, 8a)
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