Single Idea 3053

[catalogued under 22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / d. Health]

Full Idea

Pythagoras taught that virtue is harmony, and health, and universal good, and God.

Gist of Idea

Pythagoras taught that virtue is harmony, and health, and universal good, and God

Source

report of Pythagoras (reports [c.530 BCE]) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 08.1.19

Book Reference

Diogenes Laertius: 'Diogenes Laertius', ed/tr. Yonge,C.D. [Henry G. Bohn 1853], p.351


A Reaction

I like the link with health, because I consider that a bridge over the supposed fact-value gap. Very Pythagorean to think that virtue is harmony. Plato liked that thought.