Aristotle, Plato and Bhagvad Gita on the “Soul”: In the Light Primarily of On the Soul, Phaedo and the Second Chapter of Bhagvad Gita

Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research 35 (2):279-295 (2018)
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This paper broadly aims at examining the idea of the “soul” or “atma” in ancient Greece and in India during the Axial Age. Against the backdrop of this general understanding, an attempt is made at comprehending the idea of the soul in Plato’s Phaedo in the light, on the one hand of Aristotle’s De Anima and on the other of Bhagavad Gita (or Gita in short). It is opined that Socrates’s views, in Phaedo, are closer in spirit to the Hindu ideas of “atma” in the Upanishads and the Gita than to the Greek ideas of the “soul”. An attempt has been made to provide a background for this paradoxical event.

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