The Development of Metaphysics in Persia

PART I.

Pre-Islamic Persian Philosophy.

CHAP. I.

PERSIAN DUALISM.

§ I.

Zoroaster.

To Zoroaster--the ancient sage of Iran--must always be assigned the first place in the intellectual history of Iranian Aryans who, wearied of constant roaming, settled down to an agricultural life at a time when the Vedic Hymns were still being composed in the plains of Ce...