Universe and Inner Self in Early Indian and Early Greek Thought
Universe and Inner Self in Early Indian and Early Greek Thought
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Abstract
This book focuses from various perspectives on the striking similarities (as well as the concomitant differences) between early Greek and early Indian thought. In both cultures there occurred at about the same time the birth of 'philosophy', the idea of the universe as an intelligible order in which personal deity is (at most) marginal and the inner self is at the centre of attention. The similarities include a pentadic structure of narrative and cosmology, a basic conception of cosmic order or harmony, a close relationship between universe and inner self, techniques of soteriological inwardness and self-immortalisation, the selflessness of theory, envisaging the inner self as a chariot, the interiorisation of ritual, and ethicised reincarnation. Explanations for the similarites are a shared Indo-European origin, parallel socio-economic development, and influence in one direction or the other.
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Front Matter
- Introduction
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The common origin approach to comparing Indian and Greek philosophy
Nick Allen
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The concept of ṛtá in the Ṛgveda
Joanna Jurewicz
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Harmonia and ṛtá
Aditi Chaturvedi
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Ātman and its transition to worldly existence
Greg Bailey
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Cosmology, psyche and ātman in the Timaeus, the Ṛgveda and the Upaniṣads
Hyun Höchsmann
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Plato and yoga
John Bussanich
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Technologies of self-immortalisation in ancient Greece and early India
Paolo Visigalli
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Does the concept of theōria fit the beginning of Indian thought?
Alexis Pinchard
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Self or being without boundaries: on Śaṅkara and Parmenides
Chiara Robbiano
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Soul chariots in Indian and Greek thought: polygenesis or diffusion?
Paolo Magnone
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‘Master the chariot, master your Self’: comparing chariot metaphors as hermeneutics for mind, self and liberation in ancient Greek and Indian sources
Jens Schlieter
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New riders, old chariots: poetics and comparative philosophy
Alexander S. W. Forte andCaley C. Smith
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The interiorisation of ritual in India and Greece
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Rebirth and ‘ethicisation’ in Greek and South Asian thought
Mikel Burley
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On affirmation, rejection and accommodation of the world in Greek and Indian religion
Matylda Obryk
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The justice of the Indians
Richard Stoneman
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Nietzsche on Greek and Indian philosophy
Emma Syea
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End Matter
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