The main idea is that the world is built on logic and harmony which can be understood by an individual human mind. It was born from religious mysticism (Descartes, Leibniz)
Erm, Pythagoras was around a lot earlier than the likes of Descartes or Leibniz. Even the competing ideas that “the world is built on chance” or else that “all understanding is social” (or, to put it another way, “man is the measure of all things”) are of comparable antiquity and not really more ‘sophisticated’ in any relevant way—except perhaps in an overly literal sense, being more conducive to “sophistry”!
Erm, Pythagoras was around a lot earlier than the likes of Descartes or Leibniz. Even the competing ideas that “the world is built on chance” or else that “all understanding is social” (or, to put it another way, “man is the measure of all things”) are of comparable antiquity and not really more ‘sophisticated’ in any relevant way—except perhaps in an overly literal sense, being more conducive to “sophistry”!