The Natural Harmony View Of The Pythagoreans

Among the School of natural philosophy in ancient Greece, the Pythagoreans is a special one, which pays more attention to math and the mathematical tradition. Even more, they have set up the principle of simplicity, harmony and beauty, they think there is a certain relationship of scale between the celestial planets, and this relationship has created a harmony of celestial bodies. The distances from these planets to the Earth are the same as the chord length of piano strings, which is proportional to play the wonderful "music of the Spheres"The introduction part of this article analyzes the research of the Pythagoreans natural harmonious view nowadays and the significance of it. And the research methods are simply described.The first part briefly described the natural harmony view of the Pythagoreans. By studying the experience of Pythagoras and the formation, development and evolution of his school, we generally understand the formation conditions and backgrounds of its natural harmony view. We simply introduced the natural harmonious view of the Pythagoreans, which leads to our discussion about it.The second part specifically described the thought of number’s natural harmony of the Pythagoreans:the Pythagoreans believe that the number is the principle of everything, everything originate from the number. By analyzing the general view, meaning, value and limitation of this thought, we study and understand more about it.The third part mainly described the musical naturally harmonious view of the Pythagoreans. Pythagoreans are very important in the history of the development of music theory. It established the important foundation for the development of music theory. This article briefly introduced some representative men of Pythagoreans and their theories, and we can see how the harmonious view of music is established and developed through the efforts of these people step by step.The fourth part is a comprehensive description of the second and the third part. In the opinion of the Pythagoreans, the wisest number creates a harmonious and beautiful space. The proportion of the space factors is, symmetry, simple and harmonious. The stars of the universe are arranged according to the ratio of the harmonics, various sounds in the movement of these stars formed a harmonious music of the universe ultimately.The last part made a summary by describing the influence of Pythagoreans in future. The author believes that the Pythagoreans and its harmonious thought is very important and meaningful for the building of a socialist harmonious society today. Undoubtedly, Pythagoras and the theory of Pythagoreans School have became an important part of traditional thought, inseparable and can not be ignored, and it will still affect the human thought process.