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Chapter 11 - Psuchē and the Interiorisation of Mystery-Cult

from Part D - Unified Self, Monism and Cosmic Cycle in Greece

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2019

Richard Seaford
Richard Seaford
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University of Exeter
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Chapter 11 comparesthe interiorisation of the cosmic rite of passage in India (sacrifice) and Greece (mystic initiation), identifies the importance of the soul (psuche) in mystic initiation, which is interiorised in Herakleitos, in Parmenides and in Plato. This Greek interiorisation promoted ideas akin to the coalescence of mental with abstract monism promoted by the interiorisation of the cosmic rite of passage in India.

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Rite of passagemystic initiationpsuchēHerakleitosParmenidesPlato
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The Origins of Philosophy in Ancient Greece and Ancient India
A Historical Comparison
 , pp. 219 - 234
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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