Author:
McEvilley, Thomas, 1939-2013.
Imprint:New York : Allworth Press : School of Visual Arts, c2002.
Descriptionxxxvi, 732 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Note:Foreward: History: competition or collaboration? -- Diffusion channels in the pre-Alexandrian period -- The problem of the One and the Many -- The cosmic cycle -- The doctrine of reincarnation -- Platonic monism and Indian thought -- Platonic ethics and Indian yoga -- Plato, Orphics, and Jains -- Plato and kundalini -- Cynics and Pasupatas -- Five questions concerning the ancient Near East -- The elements -- Early pluralisms in Greece and India -- Skepticism, empiricism, and naturalism -- Diffusion channels in the Hellenistic and Roman periods -- Dialectic before Alexander -- Early Greek philosophy and Madhyamika --Pyrrhonism and Madhyamika -- The path of the dialectic -- The syllogism -- Peripatetics and Vaisesikas -- The Stoics and Indian thought -- Neoplatonism and the Upanisadic-Vedantic tradition -- Plotinus and Vijñanavada Buddhism -- Neoplatonism and Tantra -- The ethics of imperturbability -- Afterword: Remarks toward a Conclusion -- App. A The Aryans -- App. B The Aryan Invasion -- App. C Black Athena and Western Xenophobia -- App. D The Golden Thigh -- App. E Philosophy and Grammar -- List of Works Cited
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 678-702) and index.
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