ON THE ROLE OF HARMONIA IN PLA - Bok av Aditi Chaturvedi - Häftad
The notion of harmonia occupies a central position for the early Greeks in their writings on cosmology, society, and the self. As Emile Benveniste (1973, pp. 101-102) has noted, \order\ is, in general, an extremely important concept for Indo-Europeans and is denoted by the Greek harmonia, the Sanskrit ¿ta (order), Avestan äa (order), and the Old Persian arta (truthful order), all of which descend from the same Indo-European root - *H2er. For the Pythagoreans - and, arguably, for other pre-Socratics..