Jessica Frazier, “You are What you Know: Becoming the Cosmos in Ancient India”

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Philiminality

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Some of India's earliest  philosophy in the Upanisads relied on an implicit theory of knowledge  that saw the mind as a malleable material that 'becomes' what it knows.  We look at how this theory, when it meets the beginnings of metaphysics,  sets the scene for speculative philosophy as a therapy of  self-expansion, self-deepening, and self-remaking. Here, rather than a  quietist or stoic purpose for philosophy - as Pierre Hadot has suggested  - we see philosophy as the mind's capacity to recreate itself in the  likeness of the cosmos.