Even in that early age, the question of the social significance of philosophy and religion was placed in a very acute form. Some of the Pythagoreans and some of their enemies believed that religion blesses and sanctifies only certain forms of public order. That's why the defenders of these forms were hiding behind the religion. Their opponents also considered the religion of their hateful social forms, so in their struggle against them, they also denied the religion and philosophy of their adversaries.

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About the essence of Pythagoras philosophy - The preserved in Heraclitus of Pontius (4th century BC), a narrative for the meeting of Pythagoras and Leon of Fleet, shows us that Pythagoreans understood philosophy as a study in general, what is the essence of things, and study that is not for glory in the Olympics), nor is it for profit (as it is on the market), but unselfishly - to satisfy the theoretical use of man to shape his worldview and the pursuit of true knowledge.

The Philosophy of Religion

It is possible and there are actually three types of relations between religion and philosophy:
a) both exist simultaneously without any interference or contradiction;
b) both mutually deny and repulse, defeating one or the other;
c) both they exist simultaneously and are neither neutral to one another, nor hostile, but mutually supposed, supported and complementary;
The Pythagoreans, first in the history of Greek philosophy, stood theoretical and practical in the third opinion. Pythagoras was a spiritual person. They also had a religious society. They believed in God and the immortality of the soul and in vengeance. They accepted the reincarnation of the souls. They practiced various ordinances, sacraments, prayers, washings, fasting, and others.

Philosophy and science

According to the Pythagoreans, as well as by all Greeks, philosophy initially unified all the sciences. They specially dealt with mathematics and astronomy, with geometry and music that for first put on scientific grounds, expressing the mathematical tones, made a number of discoveries in mathematics and geometry. The Pythagorean theorem - the sum of angles in the triangle is equal to two straight angles, and so on. Philosophy and moral There are three major relationships between philosophy and morality:
a / Neutrality: they do not share one another.
b) Full dependence on one of the other: the moral of philosophy or the philosophy of morality.
c) The same consistency of both: a higher beginning and, as a result, relative and complementarity between them.
The Pythagoreans are for the third opinion, knowing and justifying the religious foundations of both philosophy and morality. They themselves create a high moral theory and practice. They lived according to communal principles, everything was common; were vegetarians - did not eat meat, abstainers - did not drink spirits, friendly, honest, frank, passionate - and denying war, women in them were equal, and so on.

Philosophy of life

They mainly have three concepts of a relationship between philosophy and public life:
a) Philosophy neither influences public life nor is it influenced by it.
b) Philosophy is party-owned by a party and serving the party, therefore subject to public order.
c) Philosophy is influenced by life and influences life without being party, namely: it helps to overcome partiality and serve human norms. The Pythagoreans have participated in the public life in practice and have put forward the theoretical public mission of philosophy. They were about the aristocracy's management, the most competent, having seen the negative aspects of slave-building democracy. In the then historic setting, however, this was a socio-religious view, albeit basically right, and this cost the life of the most prominent Pythagoreans.

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