D'Hoine will further argue that Proclus's insistence on the harmony between Plato and Pythagoreanism is the main motive behind this interpretation.

Furthermore, Clemens notes that Meillassoux is lead into the awkward position of having to deny that being is inherently mathematical, since this would amount to Pythagoreanism, and at the same time he claims that mathematics is the only way of thinking the real properties of things.

It rarely comes as a surprise, for example, to discover that a certain Pythagorean concept actually originated with Plato (or with Platonism) only to be adopted later by Pythagoreans and attributed subsequently to Pythagoras (or to Pythagoreanism) simply because Pythagoras predates Plato.

Among the topics are the transfer of afterlife knowledge in Pythagorean eschatology, the Sentences of Sextus and the Christian transformation of Pythagorean asceticism, Pythagoreans and medical writers on periods of human gestation, Pythagoras and the "Perfect" churches of the Renaissance, and Ibn Sina's and Al-Ghazali's approach to Pythagoreanism. ([umlaut] Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR)

In addition, the fundamental theological contributions of various Greco-Roman philosophical schools of thought, including Orphism, Stoicism, Pythagoreanism, Platonism and Neo-Platonism, are described.

Pythagoreanism in the First Century BC: New Directions for Philosophy.

(6) Secondly, the use of Pythagoras as a paradigm for Apollonius is clear: the prefatory chapter mentions only those aspects of Pythagoras that will figure prominently in Apollonius' version of Pythagoreanism. (7) Lastly the notions that Pythagoras and Empedocles possessed a special, daemonic nature, and that they also had experienced previous incarnations, will be important in the case of Apollonius himself.

Bonds then connects "form," the "central quality" by which eighteenth-century writers related music's essence to its effect, to Pythagoreanism, which he divides into "hard" and "soft" versions.

The truly philosophical in the early Pythagoreanism was this idea of absolute knowledge whose subject will come much later; in Pythagoras there is no "Subject," one who strives for the absolute knowledge.