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- University of Hawai'I Press
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- Copyright © 2006 University of Hawai'i Press.
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- 1529-1898
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Abstract
The philosophical import of the chariot images found in the Katha Upanishad and the Phaedrus is considered here. It is claimed that the resemblance in the accounts provided in these disparate texts is not merely incidental. Rather, each chariot-image should be read as contributing to a careful answer to the same thorny philosophical problem: the identification and justification of the best life for the individual. It is argued that each serves to illuminate an internal and complex account of the self, which grounds and supports an effective rejection of the life spent in pursuit of the satisfaction of bodily desires in favor of the life spent in pursuit of wisdom
Journal
Philosophy East and West – University of Hawai'I Press
Published: Jul 20, 2006