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SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: Scythian Religion and Philosophy
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DESCRIPTION:Guest lecture by Chris I. Beckwith\n\nScholars have long attem
 pted (on the whole\, unsuccessfully) to make sense out of the somewhat ran
 dom information available in Herodotus and other ancient sources on Scythi
 an religion.\n\nAt the same time\, the topic of Scythian philosophy has be
 en ignored\, presumably because it is assumed that there was no such thing
 . However\, the first attested philosophers (in the modern sense of the wo
 rd) were all Scythians\, and their rather advanced philosophical methods a
 nd conclusions appear to have developed out of traditional Scythian religi
 ous ideas.\n\nThis lecture first analyzes the Scythians’ traditional rel
 igious thought based on the ancient sources. It then considers the thought
  of their earliest philosophers: Anacharsis the Scythian (fl. ca. 592–58
 9 BC)\; Zoroaster (fl. ca. 620 BC)\; Gautama  Buddha ‘the Scythian Sage
 ’ (Śākyamuni\, fl. ca. 500 BC)\; and Laotzu\, a Hu (胡) ‘Scythian
 ’ who taught in China (fl. ca. 400 BC)\, based on the earliest attested 
 reports.\n\nThe connections and distinctions between the Scythians’ meta
 physically focused religious beliefs and their logical-epistemological phi
 losophical thought will be discussed.\n\nPlease contact Sabrina Finke if y
 ou want to participate in the lecture.
LOCATION:CERES-Palais\, Raum "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/de/events/gastvortrag-scythian-religion-and-philo
 sophy/
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