Universe and inner self in early Indian and early Greek thought / edited by Richard Seaford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seaford, Richard, author.

Contributor:

Seaford, Richard, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self--India.

Self.

Self--Greece.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Philosophy, Indic.

India--Civilization--To 1200.

India.

Greece--Civilization--To 146 B.C.

Greece.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 310 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This volume brings together Hellenists and Indologists representing a variety of perspectives on the similarities and differences between the two cultures. It offers a collaborative contribution to the burgeoning interest in the Axial Age and will be of interest to anyone intrigued by the big questions inspired by the ancient world.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2018).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Mai 2022)

ISBN:

9781474427142

1474427146

9781474426695

1474426697

9781474411004

1474411002

OCLC:

1112151149

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access