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In the pursuit of understanding life and purification of the soul, Phythagoras (c.570--c. 495 BC), the great Ionian philosopher and mathematician, distinguished three different kinds of lives and by implications the three of the soul. 
By way of illustration, there, are, he said, three different kinds of people who go to the Olympian games. The lowest class is made of those who go there to buy and sell, to make profit. Next are those who go there to compete, to gain honor. Best of all, he thought, are those who come as spectators, who reflect upon and analyze what is happening. Of these three spectator illustrates the activity of Philosophers who are liberated from daily life and its imperfections.   

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