Onatas
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Who is Onatas?
Onatas of Croton or Tarentum was a Pythagorean philosopher. Nothing is known about his life, but a long passage from a work entitled On God and the Divine is preserved Stobaeus. The work probably dates from the 1st century BC or AD and is part of the pseudonymous Neo-Pythagorean literature.
The author argues that God is a governing part of the universe, although the universe itself is not God but only divine. He argued against the belief in a single deity on the basis of the many "powers" in the universe; they must belong to different gods. He also claimed that the earthy mixture of the body defiles the purity of the soul.
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