Pythagoreanism was the system of esoteric and metaphysical beliefs held by Pythagoras and his followers, the Pythagoreans, who were considerably influenced by mathematics, music and astronomy. Pythagoreanism originated in the 5th century BC and greatly influenced platonism and the concept of vegetarianism. Later revivals of Pythagorean doctrines l...
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• (n.) The doctrines of Pythagoras or the Pythagoreans.
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philosophical school and religious brotherhood, believed to have been founded by Pythagoras of Samos, who settled in Croton in southern Italy about ... [27 related articles]
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Pyth`a·go're·an·ism noun The doctrines of Pythagoras or the Pythagoreans. « As a philosophic school
Pythagoreanism became extinct in Greece about the middle of the 4th century [
B. C. ].»
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the esoteric and metaphysical beliefs held by Pythagoras and his followers the Pythagoreans, much influenced by mathematics and probably a main inspiration source to Plato and platonism. Pythagoreanism includes musica universalis, the music of the spheres.
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a philosophy influenced by the work of Pythagoras; the philosophy, based on mathematical and numerical theories, also promoted a strict vegetarianism.
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The doctrines (philosophical, mathematical, moral, and religious) of Pythagoras (c. 572-497) and of his school which flourished until about the end of the 4th century B.C. The Pythagorean philosophy was a dualism which sharply distinguished thought and the senses, the soul and the body, the mathematical forms of things and their perceptible appear....
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the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, esp. the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.
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