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  • Chapter 8 - The Formation of Monism

  • from Part C - Unified Self, Monism and Cosmic Cycle in India
  • 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 143-166

  • Summary

    Chapter 8 describes the development of the various forms of monism (material, personal, mental, abstract) after the Rigveda. The traditional correspondences, between ritual and what ritual controls, tend to collapse into a single identification, of subject with object, making for the prominence and coalescence of mental monism and abstract monism in the early Upanishads – under the influence of universal abstract value. Awareness of the unity of all things (monism) is associated with immortality. The monistic tendency is illustrated by focus on a single passage of the Chandogya Upani?ad.