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Often appears with: the nature and attributes of God · reason and the intellect · pythagoras · italic school · ionic school · fate, destiny, and necessity
Usually: reflection (1) · curiosity (1) · detachment (1)
Augustine contrasts the “Italic” and “Ionic” philosophical schools by tracing their founders—Pythagoras of Samos and Thales of Miletus—and summarizes their cosmologies from water/air to divine mind and recurring world cycles.
2. _Concerning the two schools of philosophers, that is, the Italic and Ionic, and their founders._ As far as concerns the literature of the Greeks, whose language holds a more illustrious place than any of the languages of the other nations, history mentions two schools of philosophers, the one called the Italic school, originating in that part of Italy which was formerly called Magna Græcia; the other called the I…