Pythagoreanism
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- noun
- /ˌpɪθəˈɡɔriənɪzəm/
- Pythagoreanism includes beliefs about the transmigration of souls after death.
Examples
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So you've got Pythagoreanism and Platonism and Christianity and Islam and Jewishness, Jewishness, Judaism.
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The teachings of Pythagoreanism emphasize the importance of mathematics in understanding the universe.
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Um, Pythagoreanism, transmigration of souls, reincarnation, not just of people, but of plants.
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It was a precocious reification of the nascent Renaissance proportional code stemming from Pythagoreanism.
Academic text (2015) -
Finally, it is interesting that the reconstruction sketched in the previous two sections brings Heraclitus close, if not to Pythagoras himself, at least to the recast Pythagoreanism of Empedocles.
Academic text (1991) -
Fraser includes a chapter on the "Cosmology of the Occult," where he explores Pythagoreanism, Theosophy, and the Doctrine of Animism in occult fiction.
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Carrying through a tradition of medieval Christian Neoplatonism out of Pythagoreanism, Burner describes Earth as a "Mundane Egg," with the shell the Earth's crust and its interior the yolk.
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Influenced by Pythagoreanism, many philosophical movements prioritize harmony and balance.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Pythagoreanism = Pythagorean (transparent) = Pythagoras + ean + ism
Regular formation from the adjective 'Pythagorean' with the productive noun-forming suffix '-ism' meaning 'system/doctrine of beliefs'.
Etymology
Pythagoreanism comes from the name Pythagoras, an ancient Greek teacher who saw 'numbers' and 'harmony' as the key to the world. Think of the familiar Pythagorean theorem: his followers used numbers to explain music and the soul, so Pythagoreanism means their system of ideas about mathematics, harmony and the soul.