| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 310 pages) |
| Summary |
From the sixth century BCE onwards there occurred a revolution in thought, with novel ideas such as - all that exists is a single abstract thing, or that the most important thing about each of us is an eternal, unitary inner self. This intellectual transformation is sometimes called the beginning of philosophy. And it occurred ? independently it seems - in both India and Greece, but not in the vast Persian Empire that divided them. How was this possible? This is a puzzle that has never been solved. This volume brings together a variety of perspectives to outline the similarities and differences between the two cultures, and to attempt to explain them. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. The common origin approach to comparing Indian and Greek philosophy / Nick Allen -- 2. The concept of ṛtá in the Ṛgveda / Joanna Jurewicz -- 3. Harmonia and ṛtá / Aditi Chaturvedi -- 4. Ātman and its transition to worldly existence / Greg Bailey -- 5. Cosmology, psyche and Ātman in the Timaeus, the Ṛgveda and the Upaniṣads / Hyun Höchsmann -- 6. Plato and yoga / John Bussanich -- 7. Technologies of self-immortalisation in ancient Greece and early India / Paolo Visigalli -- 8. Does the concept of theōria fit the beginning of Indian thought? / Alexis Pinchard -- 9. Self or being without boundaries : on Sankara and Parmenides / Chiara Robbiano -- 10. Soul chariots in Indian and Greek thought : polygenesis or diffusion? / Paolo Magnone -- 11. 'Master the chariot, master your Self' : comparing chariot metaphors as hermeneutics for mind, self and liberation in ancient Greek and Indian Sources / Jens Schlieter -- 12. New riders, old chariots : poetics and comparative philosophy / Alexander S.W. Forte and Caley C. Smith -- 13. The interiorisation of ritual in India and Greece / Richard Seaford -- 14. Rebirth and 'ethicisation' in Greek and South Asian thought / Mikel Burley -- 15. On affirmation, rejection and accommodation of the world in Greek and Indian religion / Matylda Obryk -- 16. The justice of the Indians / Richard Stoneman -- 17. Nietzsche on Greek and Indian philosophy / Emma Syea. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
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Self -- India.
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Self -- Greece.
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Philosophy, Indic.
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Philosophy, Ancient.
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India -- Civilization -- To 1200.
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Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C.
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PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical.
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Civilization. (OCoLC)fst00862898
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Philosophy, Ancient. (OCoLC)fst01060860
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Philosophy, Indic. (OCoLC)fst01060996
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Self. (OCoLC)fst01111441
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Greece. (OCoLC)fst01208380
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India. (OCoLC)fst01210276
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| Chronological Term |
To 1200
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| Added Author |
Seaford, Richard, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Universe and inner self in early Indian and early Greek thought. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016] 9781474410991 (OCoLC)959259898 |
| ISBN |
9781474411004 (electronic bk.) |
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1474411002 (electronic bk.) |
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9781474411011 (epub) |
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1474411010 (epub) |
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9781474410991 |
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1474410995 |
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