{"product_id":"9780415865807","title":"The Philosophy of the Upanishads and Ancient Indian Metaphysics","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst Published in 2000. This is volume IX of 10 in the Oriental Series based on India and its language and literature and is concerned with a collection of the philosophy of the Upanishads and the ancient Indian metaphysics. Those interested in the general history of philosophy will find in this book an account of a very early attempt, on the part of thinkers of a rude age and race, to form a cosmological theory. The real movement of philosophic thought begins, it is true, not in India, but in Ionia; but some degree of interest may still be expected to attach to the procedure of the ancient Indian cosmologists. The Upanishads are so many “ songs before sunrise,”— spontaneous effusions of awakening reflection, half poetical, half metaphysical, that precede the conscious and methodical labour of the long succession of thinkers to construct a thoroughly intelligible conception of the sum of things. For the general reader, then, these pages may supply in detail, and in the terms of the Sanskrit texts themselves, a treatment of the topics slightly sketched in the third chapter of Archer Butler's1 ’first series of “ Lectures on the History of Ancient Philosophy.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49344277283043,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":68.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0764\/3758\/6147\/files\/9780415865807-1.jpg?v=1788516599","url":"https:\/\/usa.kinokuniya.com\/products\/9780415865807","provider":"Books Kinokuniya USA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}