It is regarded as a strongly theistic philosophic exposition of Upanishads. These can be divided into histories of Chinese philosophy and philosophic treatises. Neopythagoreans combined Pythagorean teachings with Platonic, Peripatetic, Aristotelian and Stoic philosophic traditions. Atticus was an inveterate opponent of Stoicism and philosophic pretensions. To this extent, then, modern physics has moved in the direction of philosophic idealism. Much of the learning centered on debates to philosophic or religious questions. These religions offered a philosophic and salvific path not involving deity worship. Intrinsic value is an ethical and philosophic property. Conrad looked with less optimism than Russell on the possibilities of scientific and philosophic knowledge. They combined this with the teachings of Plato's philosophic successors. Plato's dialogues have become an important surviving source of Pythagorean philosophic arguments. This marks the transition from more strictly scientific to philosophic work. The work advanced social liberal ideas immensely within the 1970s political and philosophic academia. Maasti also crafted a number poems on various philosophic, aesthetic and social themes. Marcus would struggle to reconcile the life of the court with his philosophic yearnings.