A Cross-Cultural Comparison of the Issue of Self-Knowledge in Sophocles＇ Oedipus Tyrannus, Shakespeare＇s Hamlet and the Bhagavadgita  

作　　者：Lourens Minnema 

机构地区：[1]VU University

出　　处：《Journal of Philosophy Study》2012年第7期439-449,共11页哲学研究（英文版）

摘　　要：Greek and Shakespearean tragic truth emerges from pollution, moral brokenness, and pain. This also applies to the tragic truth of the Indian epics, except that this karmic kind of truth is not considered decisive. Crucial in the Indian case is cosmic truth, and Hindu cosmic truth is never produced out of pollution or pain. In Arjuna＇s case, Krishna＇s revelatory knowledge is religiously saving knowledge, whereas in Oedipus＇ case, Apollo＇s and Teiresias＇ revelatory knowledge is religiously dooming knowledge. In Hamlet＇s case, religiously saving knowledge is an object of theological speculation and of philosophical doubt. In the Hindu case, self-knowledge means absolute knowledge and ultimate liberation; in the Greek case, self-knowledge means self-discovery and the recognition of human fragility; in the Shakespearean case, self-knowledge means self-exploration and doubting oneself.

关 键 词：SELF-KNOWLEDGE Greek tragedy Shakespearean tragedy HAMLET Bhagavadgita vision 

分 类 号：B982[哲学宗教—宗教学] G04[文化科学]