The Shape of Ancient Thought: Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies

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Simon and Schuster, Feb 7, 2012 - Art - 768 pages
Spanning thirty years of intensive research, this book proves what many scholars could not explain: that today’s Western world must be considered the product of both Greek and Indian thought—Western and Eastern philosophies.

Thomas McEvilley explores how trade, imperialism, and migration currents allowed cultural philosophies to intermingle freely throughout India, Egypt, Greece, and the ancient Near East. This groundbreaking reference will stir relentless debate among philosophers, art historians, and students.

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Contents

Chapter Fourteen DIFFUSION CHANNELS IN THE HELLENISTIC AND PERIODS
EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHY AND
Chapter Seventeen PYRRHONISM AND DHYAMIKA
Chapter Twenty PERIPATETICS AND VAISES IKAS
VEDA
Chapter TwentyThree PLOTINUS AND VIJN
THE GOLDEN THIGH
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Chapter Thirteen SKEPTICISM

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Thomas Mcevilley is Distinguished Lecturer in Art History at Rice University, where he has been on the faculty since 1969. The author holds a Ph.D. in classical philology. In addition to Greek and Latin, he has studied Sanskrit and has taught numerous courses in Greek and Indian culture, history of religion and philosophy, and art. He has published countless scholarly monographs and articles in various journals on early Greek poetry, philosophy, and religion as well as on contemporary art and culture. He has been a visiting professor at Yale University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, among others. He was the recipient of a Fulbright Grant in 1993 and has been awarded an NEA critic s grant and the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism by the College Art Association. His other books include Sculpture in the Age of Doubt (Allworth Press). He lives in New York City.

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