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Awareness : enable man to see through or reflect and to search for the
meaning of his experience and his life
Insight : often wordless and non-conceptual, an emerging response to
a certain stimulus: man sees the solution to his problem.
Reflective Judgment : capability of man to arrive at a judgment based
on evidence/s that he has gathered that may support a certain
idea or insight. (concerning his life & existence)
The Drive to understand : man is capable of discounting some of
his limitations and interest for the sake of explanatory
understanding. (Unstructured, Unlimited, Objective)
Was born at Samos, an island coast of Asia Minor, came in contact with Milesian philosophers. He
migrated from his homeland to Croton, in Southern Italy, and founded a religious school known as
Pythagoreans.
Philosophy is a way of life rather than a body of doctrine, idea continued later on by Socrates and
Plato. Pythagorean interest in mathematics and music grew the conviction that reality itself consists
of numbers.
Everything we can see and touch is made up of numbers. And Numbers, is more basic than water or
fire, or any other physical aspects of things.
Numerical proportion and harmony account for the order and arrangement of things in their various
forms.
Pythagorean likened the body to a musical instrument, corresponding to high and low pitch in music.
So when we say that our system is out of tune, we mean that we are under too much tension and need
relaxation.