A Comparative Note on Early Greek and Indian Philosophical Understanding

Abstract

Indian and Greek philosophical understandings had developed in ancient times, with a remarkable quest to learn more about the human mind, consciousness, and its relationship with the physical world. From the beginning of Greek and Indian rationalism to the inquires of the matter philosophers, similarities in Mystic and monistic thoughts, parallelism in atomic theories, and striking resemblance in Platonic and Upanishadic philosophical thoughts suggest a continuous dialogue between two great ancient civilisations and their intellectual classes, if not directly than through some medium or from a common meeting place like the capital city of great Persian empire, where people of high intellectual resources were often travelling for various purposes. Most of these parallel philosophical thoughts or understandings were taking place in the -Alexandrian world, and classical writings have made this knowledge available to us, which may be examined now for having a deeper understanding of these thought processes. The present paper tries to critically analyse the ideas and interface of these ancient philosophies and philosophers.