Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

The Beginnings of Philosophy in India

Richard Gotshalk

4/5 ( ratings)

Philosophy was born in India in the late 8th century, at a crucial but troubled time in the emergence of a civilization which integrated peoples of northern India with contrasting Aryan and Indus Valley heritages. This book begins with a recalling of the extended historical dynamic that culminated in that time. Given the sketch of the historical background and matrix, the book then attempts an exposition of a number of the important Upanisads . Richard Gotshalk provides fresh interpretations and translations of the Upanisads, and places his exposition of the philosophical material in the relevant historical context. The work concludes with a brief sketch of features and emphases which mark the Upanisadic realization of philosophical thought and distinguish it from philosophy as realized in its beginnings in China and Greece. In an appendix the work also offers a translation of the parts of the eleven Upanisads treated in the main text.

Language: English

Pages: 472

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: University Press of America

Release: May 07, 1998

ISBN: 0761810536

ISBN 13: 9780761810537

The Beginnings of Philosophy in India

Richard Gotshalk

4/5 ( ratings)

Philosophy was born in India in the late 8th century, at a crucial but troubled time in the emergence of a civilization which integrated peoples of northern India with contrasting Aryan and Indus Valley heritages. This book begins with a recalling of the extended historical dynamic that culminated in that time. Given the sketch of the historical background and matrix, the book then attempts an exposition of a number of the important Upanisads . Richard Gotshalk provides fresh interpretations and translations of the Upanisads, and places his exposition of the philosophical material in the relevant historical context. The work concludes with a brief sketch of features and emphases which mark the Upanisadic realization of philosophical thought and distinguish it from philosophy as realized in its beginnings in China and Greece. In an appendix the work also offers a translation of the parts of the eleven Upanisads treated in the main text.

Language: English

Pages: 472

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: University Press of America

Release: May 07, 1998

ISBN: 0761810536

ISBN 13: 9780761810537

More books from Richard Gotshalk

The Temporality of Human Excellence: A Reading of Five Dialogues of Plato

Beginnings of Philosophy in China

Bhagavad Gītā

The Beginnings Of Philosophy In Greece

Divination, Order, and the Zhouyi

The Well of Eternity

Homer and Hesiod, Myth and Philosophy

The Classic of Way and her Power: a Miscellany?

Rate this book!

Write a review?