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Cover 1 Half-title page 3 Title page 5 Copyright page 6 Contents 7 Preface 11 The Ancient Texts 13 Translations 14 Anglicisation of Sanskrit 15 List of Abbreviations 16 Part A Introductory 19 Chapter 1 Summary 21 Chapter 2 Explanations 25 2§A Explananda 25 2§B A Shared Indo-European Origin? 26 2§C Influence? 27 2§D The Advance of Reason? 32 2§E Individual Property and Monetisation 35 Part B The Earliest Texts 57 Chapter 3 Sacrifice and Reciprocity in the Earliest Texts 59 3§A The Rigveda 59 3§B Homer and Hesiod 61 Chapter 4 Self, Society and Universe in the Earliest Texts 67 4§A Constructing the Self 67 4§B Organs of Consciousness in Homer 72 4§C Organs of Consciousness in the Rigveda 75 4§D Society and the Self in the Rigveda and Homer 78 4§E Monism 80 4§F Projection and Introjection (Interiorisation) 85 Part C Unified Self, Monism and Cosmic Cycle in India 89 Chapter 5 The Economics of Sacrifice 91 5§A Sacrifice and Society 91 5§B The Cosmic Economy of Vedic Sacrifice 96 5§C The Individualisation of Vedic Sacrifice 100 5§D From Gift to Payment 108 5§E Individualisation in India and Greece 115 Chapter 6 Inner Self and Universe 120 6§A From Diversity to Wholeness 120 6§B Loka an

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Author

Richard Seaford

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction