School
Neopythagoreanism
Overview
Neopythagoreanism (or neo-Pythagoreanism) was a school of Hellenistic and Ancient 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. The word Neopythagoreanism is a modern (19th century) term, coined as a parallel of "Neoplatonism".
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Under the influence of such ideas, perhaps also deriving from the traditions of their own or of other nations scraps of medicine and astronomy, men came to the observation of nature. The Greek philosopher looked at the blue circle of the heavens and it flashed upon him that all things were one; the tumult of sense abated, and the mind found repose in the thought which former generations had been…
Plato, Timaeus
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1) puts this very clearly: “The corporeal has no dimension outside of the Three; hence the Pythagoreans also say that the all and everything is determined through triplicity,” that is, it has absolute form. “For the number of the whole has end, middle, and beginning; and this is the triad.” Nevertheless there is something superficial in the wish to bring everything under it, as is done in the systematization of the…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
States what Neopythagoreanism is.
Among these philosophers, some committed their teachings to writings, with the purpose of being useful to posterity, while others thought that it was sufficient for them to explain their opinions to their disciples. Among the former are the Platonists Euclides, Democritus (who wrote Commentaries on the Alcibiades, on the Phaedo, and on the Metaphysics of Aristotle), Proclinus, who dwelt in the Troad, Plotinos and…
Plotinus, Plotinos
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Philosophers who discussed Neopythagoreanism
- Giordano Bruno
- Pythagoras
- Numenius of Apamea
- Plotinus
- Apollonius of Tyana
- Cerinthus
- Quintus Sextius
- Moderatus of Gades
- Alcinous (philosopher)
- Atticus (philosopher)
- Sotion (Pythagorean)
- Theano (philosopher)
Related ideas
- Hellenistic philosophy
- Mind–body problem
- Orphism
- Eastern philosophy
- Spirit (animating force)
- Middle Platonism
- Mind
- Matter
- Number theory
- Platonism
- Plato
- Pythagoras
- Neoplatonism
- Numenius of Apamea
- Prayer
- Rome
- Theory of forms
- Soul
- Pythagoreanism
- Mysticism
- Form of the Good
- Ancient Roman philosophy
- Action (philosophy)
- God
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