Pythagoreanism | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-15

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Pythagoreanism


00:01:32 1 History
00:08:38 2 Philosophic traditions
00:09:52 2.1 The iakousmatikoi/i
00:11:01 2.2 The imathēmatikoi/i
00:12:28 2.3 Rituals
00:13:40 3 Philosophy
00:14:13 3.1 Arithmetic and numbers
00:15:10 3.2 Geometry
00:16:28 3.3 Music
00:17:41 3.4 Harmony
00:18:51 3.5 Cosmology
00:20:16 3.6 Justice
00:20:25 3.7 Body and soul
00:21:21 3.8 Vegetarianism
00:24:24 4 Women philosophers
00:25:46 5 Influence on Plato &amp; Aristotle
00:26:47 6 Neopythagoreanism
00:29:19 7 Later influence
00:31:45 7.1 On early Christianity
00:33:32 7.2 On Numerology
00:35:15 7.3 On Mathematics
00:35:24 7.4 In the Middle Ages
00:37:44 7.5 On Western science
00:40:53 8 See also
00:43:02 9 References
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Pythagoreanism originated in the 6th century BC, based on the teachings and beliefs held by Pythagoras and his followers, the Pythagoreans. Pythagoras established the first Pythagorean community in Croton, Italy. Early-Pythagorean communities lived throughout Magna Graecia. They espoused a rigorous life of the intellect and strict rules on diet, clothing and behavior. Following Pythagoras’ death, disputes about his teachings led to the development of two philosophical traditions within Pythagoreanism. The practitioners of akousmatikoi were superseded in the 4th century BC as significant mendicant school of philosophy by the Cynics. The Pythagorean mathēmatikoi philosophers were in the 4th century BC absorbed into the Platonic school. 
Following the political instability in the Magna Graecia, some Pythagorean philosophers fled to mainland Greece while others regrouped in Rhegium. By about 400 BC the majority of Pythagorean philosophers had left Italy. Pythagorean ideas exercised a marked influence on Plato and through him, on all of Western philosophy. Many of the surviving sources on Pythagoras originate with Aristotle and the philosophers of the Peripatetic school.
As a philosophic tradition, Pythagoreanism was revived in the 1st century BC, giving rise to Neopythagoreanism. The worship of Pythagoras continued in Italy and as a religious community Pythagoreans appear to have survived as part of, or deeply influenced, the Bacchic cults and Orphism.