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Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 1, section 986a (search)
nsible universe.OthersZeller attributes the authorship of this theory to Philolaus. of this same school hold that there are ten principles, which they enunciate in a series of corresponding pairs: (1.) Limit and the Unlimited; (2.) Odd and Even; (3.) Unity and Plurality; (4.) Right and Left; (5.) Male and Female; (6.) Rest and Motion; (7.) Straight and Crooked; (8.) Light and Darkness; (9.) Good and Evil; (10.) Square and Oblong.Apparently Alcmaeon of Croton speculated along the same lines, and either he derived the theory from them or they from him; for [Alcmaeon was contemporary with the old age of Pythagoras, and]This statement is probably true, but a later addition. his doctrines were very similar to theirs.He was generally regarded as a Pythagorean. He says that the majority of things in the world of men are in pairs; but the contraries which he mentions are not, as in the case of the Pythagore
Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 1, section 987a (search)
earliest philosophers we have learned that the first principle is corporeal (since water and fire and the like are bodies); some of them assume one and others more than one corporeal principle, but both parties agree in making these principles material. Others assume in addition to this cause the source of motion, which some hold to be one and others two.Thus down to and apart from the ItalianThe Pythagoreans; so called because Pythagoras founded his society at Croton. philosophers the other thinkers have expressed themselves vaguely on the subject, except that, as we have said, they actually employ two causes, and one of these—the source of motion —some regard as one and others as two. The Pythagoreans, while they likewise spoke of two principles, made this further addition, which is peculiar to them: they believed, not that the Limited and the Unlimited are separate entities, like fire or water or some other such