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The Origins of Philosophy in Ancient Greece and Ancient India - A Historical Comparison (Hardcover)
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The Origins of Philosophy in Ancient Greece and Ancient India - A Historical Comparison (Hardcover)
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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).
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