• DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474410991.001.0001
• Corpus ID: 124576903

Universe and Inner Self in Early Indian and Early Greek Thought

@inproceedings{Syea2016UniverseAI,
  title={Universe and Inner Self in Early Indian and Early Greek Thought},
  author={Emma Syea},
  year={2016}
}

• Emma Syea
• Published 2016
• History

unity underlying phenomenal appearances needs to be tested in the ancient Indian context. My inclination is that the answer may be found in the Mahābhārata – though considerably later than the oldest Upaniṣads – because there money seems not to be often distinguished from more general senses of wealth, and yet the ātman theory is accepted as a given. This may reflect its ‘warrior’ concern for wealth as material goods, cattle and horses, rather than money, but it may also be a sign that the influence of monetised economies on ancient Indian ontologies has already been determined previously, and the transitional period is not reflected in later texts.