The origins of philosophy in ancient Greece and anicent India : a historical comparison
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The origins of philosophy in ancient Greece and anicent India : a historical comparison
Cambridge University Press, 2020
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Why did Greek philosophy begin in the sixth century BCE? Why did Indian philosophy begin at about the same time? Why did the earliest philosophy take the form that it did? Why was this form so similar in Greece and India? And how do we explain the differences between them? These questions can only be answered by locating the philosophical intellect within its entire societal context, ignoring neither ritual nor economy. The cities of Greece and northern India were in this period distinctive also by virtue of being pervasively monetised. The metaphysics of both cultures is marked by the projection (onto the cosmos) and the introjection (into the inner self) of the abstract, all-pervasive, quasi-omnipotent, impersonal substance embodied in money (especially coinage). And in both cultures this development accompanied the interiorisation of the cosmic rite of passage (in India sacrifice, in Greece mystic initiation).
Table of Contents
- Part I. Introductory: 1. Summary
- 2. Explanations
- Part II. The Earliest Texts: 3. Sacrifice and reciprocity in the earliest texts
- 4. Self, society, and universe in the earliest texts
- Part III. Unified Self, Monism, And Cosmic Cycle in India: 5. The economics of sacrifice
- 6. Inner self and universe
- 7. The powerful individual
- 8. The formation of monism
- 9. The hereafter
- 10. Reincarnation and karma
- Part IV. Unified Self, Monism, And Cosmic Cycle in Greece: 11. Psuche and the interiorisation of mystery-cult
- 12. Monism and inner self
- 13. Money and the inner self in Greece
- 14. Community and individual
- 15. Plato
- Part V. Conclusion: 16. The complex imagining of universe and inner self
- 17. Ritual, money, society and metaphysics.
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