Religious Views
Pythagoras was famous for his religious teachings and made several contributions to science and religion. Pythagoras’s teachings were centered on the doctrine of metempsychosis. He believed that a person’s soul does not die and is destined to a cycle of rebirths. The soul is freed from the cycle of births only through the purity of its life. His doctrine later came to be known as ‘Pythagoreanism’, which emphasized on esoteric and metaphysical ideologies. Pythagoras and his followers also believed that a soul or spirit lies in all animals and vegetable life.
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