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  • Chapter 13 - Money and Inner Self in Greece

  • from Part D - Unified Self, Monism and Cosmic Cycle in Greece
  • Richard Seaford, University of Exeter
  • Book:
    The Origins of Philosophy in Ancient Greece and Ancient India
    Published online:
    14 November 2019
    Print publication:
    05 December 2019, pp 253-270

  • Summary

    Chapter 13 describes the projection and interiorisation (introjection) of abstract value. The idea of the comprehensive inner self as constituting a person's identity is first indicated in the Homeric Achilles’ evaluation, in a crisis of reciprocity, of his psuche, which is also the first of many passages in which death is envisaged as an economic transaction, for instance in Herakleitos, who is also the first to focus on the nature of the living psuche, and who also exemplifies the Greek interiorisation of unifying abstract value.

  • Chapter 14 - Community and Individual

  • from Part D - Unified Self, Monism and Cosmic Cycle in Greece
  • Richard Seaford, University of Exeter
  • Book:
    The Origins of Philosophy in Ancient Greece and Ancient India
    Published online:
    14 November 2019
    Print publication:
    05 December 2019, pp 271-293

  • Summary

    Chapter 14 describes the opposition within early Greek metaphysics between the ontological privileging of (communal) circulation and of (individually owned) abstract value. Our three key processes of abstraction, monetisation and ritual are assessed as factors in the production of Parmenidean ‘reason’, a combination facilitated by the similarities between money and ritual, both of which contribute to the Greek doctrine of reincarnation, which was taught in mystic initiation and involved a cosmic projection (cosmisation) of monetised circulation.