Origins of Philosophy in Ancient Greece and Ancient India
A Historical Comparison
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6533450 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Seaford |
| Year | 2020 |
| Pages | 358 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Origins of Philosophy in Ancient Greece and Ancient India (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/9781108583701 |
| ISBN | 9781108583701 |
| Open Library | OL28059106M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 104 |
I define 'philosophy' as the attempt to explain systematically, and without relying on superhuman agency, the fundamental features of the universe and the place of human beings in it. This is not the only possible definition, but is the most revealing one for our period, in which we find the advent of 'philosophy' (or something very like it) in Greece, India, and China, and nowhere else
ancient · Ancient Philosophy · History · Indic · Indic philosophy · Philosophy
Ritual, State and History in South Asia
Sociology of Early Buddhism
King, Governance, and Law in Ancient India
Ancestral Fault in Ancient Greece
Aristotle’s Economic Thought
The Origins of Yoga and Tantra
Selfless Persons
Coins, Bodies, Games, and Gold
The Āśrama System
The Psychological Consequences of Money
Money as tool, money as drug
Modernity and forms of personhood in Melanesia
Nuer Dilemmas
Economic History of China
‘But Why has my Spirit Spoken with me thus?’
Epistemology and meaning in Heraclitus
The Symptom and the Subject
La Monnaie souveraine
Parmenides’ Grand Deduction
Soul chariots in Indian and Greek thought
Psychological and Ethical Ideas
Mortal and Divine in Early Greek Epistemology
Apeiron
Early Greek Concept of the Soul
On strong-arms and drinking strength
The Axial Age and its consequences
Selfhood and the Soul
Preface to Plato
Universe and Inner Self in Early Indian and Early Greek Thought
Money and the Morality of Exchange
Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece
Intellectual and Manual Labour
The Role of Money in Plato’s Republic, Book i
From dividual and individual selves to porous subjects
On the Physical Aspect of Heraclitus' Psychology
A Fourth Alternative in Interpreting Parmenides
Silver, Lead and Zinc in Early Indian Literature
To Live in Joy and Die With Hope
The bliss of Aša
The ancient Aryan verbal contest
Eleatic Questions
Mystic Light in Aeschylus’ Bassarai
Nur für Eingeweihte!» Heraklit und die Mysterien
Pindar and the Cult of Heroes
ΓΕΝΕΣΙΑ A Forgotten Festival of the Dead
The Shape of Athenian Law
Psychological Activity in Homer
Reciprocity and Ritual
Greater Magadha
Caves and the Ancient Greek Mind
On Greek Religion
Naukratis
Do Homeric Heroes Make Real Decisions
Shame and Necessity
Reincarnation and Ethics
Inalienable Possessions
Monetisation and the Genesis of the Western Subject
Money and the early Greek mind
Cosmology and the polis
Plato
Metaphors we live by
The emergence of reflexivity in Greek language and thought
Buddhism in the Shadow of Brahmanism
Linking social change and developmental change
Eaters, Food, and Social Hierarchy in Ancient India
Checking the heavenly 'bank account of karma
The reflexive pronouns in Vedic
Sacrifice, Surplus, and the Soul
The Basic Concept of Vedic Religion
"The Initiatory Structure of the "Kaṭhopaniṣad
On the Zoroastrian Temple Cult of Fire
Theories of Creation in the Rig Veda
Edifying Puzzlement
The Unequal Exchange between Glaucus and Diomedes in Light of the Homeric Gift-Economy
On the Relationships Between Early Buddism and Other Contemporary Systems
Toward An Anthropological Theory of Value
The Gender of the Gift
The Psychic Life of Power
| Citations per year | 1.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |