The Antoninos

"...the study of mathematics helped to purify the soul of its attachments to the visible world, by mastering an abstract and immaterial representation of key aspects of reality that could be conceptualized independently of ever-changing flux of sentient experience.

By mastering such a mode of pure inquiry, the soul was elevated and oriented to seek properly abstract and immaterial truths about such matters as justice and the good".

Examined lives, James Miller