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en-wikipedia-org-9370		Pythagoreanism - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	12100	1658	60	The Pythagoreans also thought that animals were sentient and minimally rational.[62] The arguments advanced by Pythagoreans convinced numerous of their philosopher contemporaries to adopt a vegetarian diet.[52] The Pythagorean sense of kinship with non-humans positioned them as a counterculture in the dominant meat-eating culture.[62] The philosopher Empedocles is said to have refused the customary blood sacrifice by offering a substitute sacrifice after his victory in a horse race in Olympia.[45] Late-Pythagorean philosophers were absorbed into the Platonic school of philosophy and in the 4th century AD the head of the Platonic Academy Polemon included vegetarianism in his concept of living according to nature.[63] In the 1st century AD Ovid identified Pythagoras as the first opponent to meat-eating.[62] But the fuller argument Pythagoreans advanced against the maltreatment of animals did not sustain. Pythagoras' teachings and Pythagoreanism influenced Plato's writings on physical cosmology, psychology, ethics and political philosophy in the 5th century BC.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9370.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9370.txt