neopythagoreanism means A Graeco-Alexandrian school of philosophy, reviving Pythagorean doctrines, which became prominent in the first and second centuries CE. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
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NEOPYTHAGOREANISM — [Noun] A Graeco-Alexandrian school of philosophy, prominent in the first and second centuries CE, which revived and reinterpreted Pythagorean doctrines. Formed within English by compounding; from the combining form neo- (meaning "new" or "revived") and the noun Pythagoreanism (denoting the philosophy of Pythagoras). Unlike Pythagoreanism, which denotes the original, secretive cult of the 6th century BCE, or Neoplatonism, the later, grand metaphysical system of Plotinus, Neopythagoreanism is a syncretic and scholarly echo. It is the feverish calculation of divine number in a Roman villa, the ascetic contemplation of the monad in the shadow of a Serapeum, and the solemn performance of ancient mysticism long after the original music has faded—a testament to the human compulsion to build sanctuaries from scattered stones when the present seems irrevocably complex.
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- A Graeco-Alexandrian school of philosophy, reviving Pythagorean doctrines, which became prominent in the first and second centuries CE.