Ancient philosophy. Pythagoras - a synthesis between philosophy and mysticism / part 4/

The Italian Pythagoreans scattered in Italy, however small they were, were living in various other parts of Greece, and so spread the Pythagoras teaching, but it could never have had its original influence, especially political, in any unfavorable situation. We now want to understand the crash of pythagoreanism, we must say that it is due to its association with the political views of the aristocracy and the large number of disputes and struggles between the aristocracy and the slave democracy. This connection was probably made less by the Pythagoreans themselves than by their opponents, but it was a fact and resulted in the extinction of society.

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So, if we look at things, we will see in some light some of the facts outlined here. What exactly is the problem? In 510, a great struggle between the aristocracy and the aristocracy began in Sibaris robberal democracy. Democracy defeats and starts persecution against the aristocracy. Their properties are confiscated, some of them, however, including the Pythagoreans escaping to Croton and asking the aristocracy and Pythagoreans for help. Meanwhile, the Siberian Democrats want the aristocrats fugitive to Croton to be surrendered to them. Otherwise, they threaten war, even heading for Croton with a large army. In Croton, a national assembly was called to decide to hand over those seeking protection or to accept the war against the stronger adversary. At first, they frightened and tended to surrender the fugitives, but then on the advice of the extraordinary author, Pythagoras, who were more likely to be defeated than to surrender those seeking their protection. War started. Crotonians were much less organized but more organized. The reigning Olympian winner-athlete Milon stood at the helm. Soon Sybarites were fled. Their own city was captured and destroyed, as we have said fundamentally, and its population was massacred.

Here, after the dizzying victory, the tragedy of the Croat aristocracy began. She ravaged the victory for herself, and at a great intersection she separated the loot from the captured Sybaris, and the people who had participated in the victory remained deceived and even more oppressed and exploited. This, as well as the cruel deal with the Siberian democrats, creates the conditions for a broad democratic movement in Croton itself. There are a number of requests, but they are not satisfied with the arrogant aristocracy. Then he goes to an open armed uprising under Killon's leadership, as he said he had personal accounts with the Pythagoreans. Under the pressure of the Democrats, a national assembly was convened, and here the opponents of the aristocracy and the Pythagoreans came out with an open indictment against them. Excerpts of some Pythagorean essay, under the title "The Sacred Word," were read in order to reveal the reactionary political views of the Pythagoreans. The result was an open armed uprising. The Aristocrats of Pythagoreans were surprised at the home of the same victorious militarist athlete Milon, and were, as we said, burned together with the athlete's house, accidentally saving only two of the participants, Arhidd and Lizis.

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