Pythagoreanism Sentence Examples
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According to Cicero (Timaeus, r), Figulus endeavoured with some success to revive the doctrines of Pythagoreanism.
Both inculcated a peculiar kind of ascetic life; both had a mystical speculative theory of religion, with purificatory rites, abstinence from beans, &c.; but Orphism was more especially religious, while Pythagoreanism, at least originally, inclined more to be a political and philosophical creed.
What is more, both Speusippus and Xenocrates founded their own philosophies on this very Pythagoreanism of Plato.
In his early years, however, he was a Pythagorean, and he is one of the most important sources for early Pythagoreanism.
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