Neopythagoreanism (or neo-Pythagoreanism ) was a school of Hellenistic and Roman philosophy which revived Pythagorean doctrines . Neopythagoreanism was influenced by middle Platonism and in turn influenced Neoplatonism . It originated in the 1st century BC and flourished during the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition describes Neopythagoreanism as "a link in the chain between the old and the new" within Hellenistic philosophy . Central to Neopythagorean thought was the concept of a soul and its inherent desire for a unio mystica with the divine.
12-478: [REDACTED] Look up Pythagorean in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pythagorean , meaning of or pertaining to the ancient Ionian mathematician, philosopher, and music theorist Pythagoras , may refer to: Philosophy [ edit ] Pythagoreanism , the esoteric and metaphysical beliefs purported to have been held by Pythagoras Neopythagoreanism ,
24-571: A baseball statistical term Pythagorean letter See also [ edit ] List of things named after Pythagoras Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Pythagorean . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pythagorean&oldid=1157572565 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
36-591: A school of philosophy reviving Pythagorean doctrines that became prominent in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD Pythagorean diet , the name for vegetarianism before the nineteenth century Mathematics [ edit ] Pythagorean theorem Pythagorean triple Pythagorean prime Pythagorean trigonometric identity Table of Pythagoras, another name for the multiplication table Music [ edit ] Pythagorean comma Pythagorean hammers Pythagorean tuning Other uses [ edit ] Pythagorean cup Pythagorean expectation ,
48-414: Is a modern (19th century) term, coined as a parallel of "Neoplatonism". In the 1st century BC Cicero 's friend Nigidius Figulus made an attempt to revive Pythagorean doctrines, but the most important members of the school were Apollonius of Tyana and Moderatus of Gades in the 1st century AD. Other important Neopythagoreans include the mathematician Nicomachus of Gerasa (fl. 150 AD), who wrote about
60-437: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Pythagorean [REDACTED] Look up Pythagorean in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pythagorean , meaning of or pertaining to the ancient Ionian mathematician, philosopher, and music theorist Pythagoras , may refer to: Philosophy [ edit ] Pythagoreanism ,
72-456: The multiplication table Music [ edit ] Pythagorean comma Pythagorean hammers Pythagorean tuning Other uses [ edit ] Pythagorean cup Pythagorean expectation , a baseball statistical term Pythagorean letter See also [ edit ] List of things named after Pythagoras Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
84-512: The duality of the infinite and the measured with the resultant scale of realities from the one down to the objects of the material world. They emphasized the fundamental distinction between the soul and the body . God must be worshipped spiritually by prayer and the will to be good, not in outward action . The soul must be freed from its material surrounding, the "muddy vesture of decay," by an ascetic habit of life. Bodily pleasures and all sensuous impulses must be abandoned as detrimental to
96-480: The esoteric and metaphysical beliefs purported to have been held by Pythagoras Neopythagoreanism , a school of philosophy reviving Pythagorean doctrines that became prominent in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD Pythagorean diet , the name for vegetarianism before the nineteenth century Mathematics [ edit ] Pythagorean theorem Pythagorean triple Pythagorean prime Pythagorean trigonometric identity Table of Pythagoras, another name for
108-460: The mystical properties of numbers. In the 2nd century, Numenius of Apamea sought to fuse additional elements of Platonism into Neopythagoreanism, prefiguring the rise of Neoplatonism . ( Iamblichus , in particular, was especially influenced by Neopythagoreanism.) Neopythagoreanism was an attempt to re-introduce a mystical religious element into Hellenistic philosophy in place of what had come to be regarded as an arid formalism. The founders of
120-508: The school sought to invest their doctrines with the halo of tradition by ascribing them to Pythagoras and Plato . They went back to the later period of Plato's thought, the period when Plato endeavoured to combine his doctrine of Ideas with Pythagorean number theory , and identified the good with the monad (which would give rise to the Neoplatonic concept of " the One "), the source of
132-433: The spiritual purity of the soul. God is the principle of good, matter the groundwork of evil . In this system can be distinguished not only the asceticism of Pythagoras and the later mysticism of Plato, but also the influence of Orphism and of Oriental philosophy . The platonic forms are no longer self-subsistent entities but are the elements which constitute the content of spiritual activity. The non-material universe
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