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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      14 November 2019
      05 December 2019
      ISBN:
      9781108583701
      9781108499552
      9781108730815
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108583701
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.68kg, 382 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.517kg, 385 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Classical Studies, Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy, Non-Western Philosophy
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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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