PSYC85H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Pythagoreanism, Johannes Kepler, Golden Ratio
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Psyc85: text chapter 2: touchstones: the origins of psychological thought. Touchstone" originally referred to a stone used to test the quality of gold or silver because of the mark it left upon them. Now: means any criterion by which the value of something is measured. One of the most famous figures in the western intellectual tradition. Has often been characterized as having had a peerless influence on the course of. It is the myth of pythagoras that has had such as great influence on the way many people in the west think about the world. He founded a secret society in italy-> the members of this society were supposed to have been able to attune themselves to the harmony that ordered the universe. Conford the view that phenomena are ordered mathematically is one way of resolving the puzzles of everyday experience. The pythagoreans were convinced of the virtue of unity and all that this concept implies.
