Health Sciences 4092F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pythagoreanism, Pythagorean Theorem, Rigveda
11 Dec 2018
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Lecture 4 a brief history of vegetarianism. Pythagoras: pythagoras was a modern vegetarian, pythagorean diet meatless diet, recall pythagorean theorem for mathematics, plato was influenced by pythagoras" diet and concepts, hinduism, brahminism, zoroastrianism, and jainism. For the example of hindu: vegetarianism is encouraged in both the upanishads and the holiest of the ancient hindu texts, the rig veda . Kking ashoka of india: enforced a law against killing certain animals and others, ashokan model the debt that i owe to all living creatures . Aristotle: denies the power of thought to animals, says that they are only capable of sensation and appetite, and that they need the rule of humankind to survive. Theophrastus: student of aristotle"s, originator of botany, rejected aristotle"s hierarchy of soul as grounds for discriminatory treatment of other living creatures, advocate of vegetarianism like pythagoras.
