- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
-
1 The common origin approach to comparing Indian and Greek philosophy -
2 The concept of ṛtá in the Ṛgveda -
3 Harmonia and ṛtá -
4 Ātman and its transition to worldly existence -
5 Cosmology, psyche and ātman in the Timaeus, the Ṛgveda and the Upaniṣads -
6 Plato and yoga -
7 Technologies of self-immortalisation in ancient Greece and early India -
8 Does the concept of theōria fit the beginning of Indian thought? -
9 Self or being without boundaries: on Śaṅkara and Parmenides -
10 Soul chariots in Indian and Greek thought: polygenesis or diffusion? -
11 ‘Master the chariot, master your Self’: comparing chariot metaphors as hermeneutics for mind, self and liberation in ancient Greek and Indian sources -
12 New riders, old chariots: poetics and comparative philosophy -
13 The interiorisation of ritual in India and Greece -
14 Rebirth and ‘ethicisation’ in Greek and South Asian thought -
15 On affirmation, rejection and accommodation of the world in Greek and Indian religion -
16 The justice of the Indians -
17 Nietzsche on Greek and Indian philosophy - Bibliography
- Index
The concept of ṛtá in the Ṛgveda
The concept of ṛtá in the Ṛgveda
- Chapter:
- (p.28) 2 The concept of ṛtá in the Ṛgveda
- Source:
- Universe and Inner Self in Early Indian and Early Greek Thought
- Author(s):
Joanna Jurewicz
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
The abstract Sanskrit concept rta (cosmos, order, truth) in the Rgveda can be shown to develop from the fundamental concrete experience of herding cows. Cognitive linguistics reveals the mechanisms by which the the concrete is used to express the abstract. This is significant for understanding the development of philosophy, both in India and generally, which is not to be regarded as dependent on literacy (as Havelock argued for Greece).
Keywords: Rgveda, Abstraction, Philosophy, Cognitive linguistics, Harmony, Metaphor, Herding
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
-
1 The common origin approach to comparing Indian and Greek philosophy -
2 The concept of ṛtá in the Ṛgveda -
3 Harmonia and ṛtá -
4 Ātman and its transition to worldly existence -
5 Cosmology, psyche and ātman in the Timaeus, the Ṛgveda and the Upaniṣads -
6 Plato and yoga -
7 Technologies of self-immortalisation in ancient Greece and early India -
8 Does the concept of theōria fit the beginning of Indian thought? -
9 Self or being without boundaries: on Śaṅkara and Parmenides -
10 Soul chariots in Indian and Greek thought: polygenesis or diffusion? -
11 ‘Master the chariot, master your Self’: comparing chariot metaphors as hermeneutics for mind, self and liberation in ancient Greek and Indian sources -
12 New riders, old chariots: poetics and comparative philosophy -
13 The interiorisation of ritual in India and Greece -
14 Rebirth and ‘ethicisation’ in Greek and South Asian thought -
15 On affirmation, rejection and accommodation of the world in Greek and Indian religion -
16 The justice of the Indians -
17 Nietzsche on Greek and Indian philosophy - Bibliography
- Index
