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    Ancient Greek and Indian Buddhist Philosophers on Reality and Selfhood by Zilioli, Ugo; Westerhoff, Jan;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
    • Date of Publication 19 February 2026
    • Number of Volumes Hardback

    • ISBN 9781350460362
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages288 pages
    • Size 234x156 mm
    • Language English
    • 700

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    Long description:

    Key areas and aspects of ancient philosophy in Greek and Indian Buddhist traditions are illuminated in this collection.

    Covering an extended period of time, from early (5th century BC), through Hellenism, to post-Hellenistic times (up to the 7th century AD) it begins by focusing on historical themes and methods in ancient Greece and India. This sketch of historical and philosophical connections between the regions, from Classical times to post-Hellenism, sets the ground for deeper exploration between these two traditions.

    Attention is placed on reality and selfhood. An international team of contributors deal with topics including consciousness, personal identity and personhood. They tackle metaphysical questions about composition and material constitution of things, shedding light on the challenges Greek and Buddhist thinkers faced.

    Converging analyses and shared themes are identified in a substantive introduction to the collection. This is an important contribution to the growing literature in ancient comparative philosophy.

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    Table of Contents:

    PART I Exchanges and influence.
    1. J. Westerhoff/ U. Zilioli, Ancient Greek and Indian Buddhist philosophies: status of the art and a comparative appraisal.
    2 Matt Cobb, Travel and Intellectual Exchange across the Ancient Indian Ocean world (ca. 100 BCE to 600 CE).

    PART II Nihilism, eliminativism and and Simplemindednness.
    3 Roberta Ioli, Being and not being in Gorgias' proper demonstration. For a non-eliminativist reading of PTMO.
    4. Ugo Zilioli, On What Is Not: Gorgias and Nagarjuna on nihilism.
    5. Diego Zucca, An Aristotelian Viewpoint on the Presence of an Eliminitavist Trend in Presocratic Philosophy.
    6. Sonam Kachru, For and Against Simplemindednness in Buddhist Metaphysics.

    PART III Indeterminacy and Scepticism.

    7. Ugo Zilioli, Pyrrho's revelation. On the hieratic style and oral origin of the Aristocles passage, between East and West.
    8. Refik Gï¿1⁄2remen, Pyrrho and Vagueness: A Fregean Analysis
    9. Anish Chakravarty, Interweaving Ancient Philosophical Traditions: Saï¿1⁄2jaya's Gymnosophism and Pyrrhonism.

    PART IV Selfhood, Consciousness and Re-birth.

    10. Enrico Piergiacomi, The Treasury of the Self. Democritus on Physics and Moral Identity.
    11. Joachim Aufderheide, No-Self in Plato and Vasubandhu.
    12. Andrea Sangiacomo, Consciousness in the Pali discourses of the Buddha
    13. Szilvia Szanyi, Rebirth Without a Self: Sthiramati on the Transformation of Consciousness.

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