1st Edition

Revival: Contemporary Indian Philosophy (1936)

Edited By S. Radhakrishnan, J. H. Muirhead Copyright 1936
384 Pages
by Routledge

380 Pages
by Routledge

380 Pages
by Routledge

The book includes essay which are all written by philosophers of or about forty -five years of age. They fall into two main groups: those in which the writer devotes himself chiefly to the exposition of the great Vedic tradition as he has apprehended it and made it the basis of his own life’s work; and those in which the writer, while on the whole remining true to the spirit of that tradition,... Read more

1. Gandhi, M. K. [Answers to three questions] 2.Tagore, R. The religion of an artist. 3.Abhedānanda, Swāmi. Hindu philosophy in India. 4. Bhattacharyya, H. The principle of activism. 5. Bhattacharyya, K. C. The concept of philosophy. 6.Chatterji, G. C. Common-sense empiricism. 7.Coomaraswamy, A. K. On the pertinence of philosophy. 8.Damle, N. G. The faith of an idealist. 9.Das, B. atma-vida, or The science of self. 10.Das, R. Pursuit of truth through doubt and belief. 11.Dasgupta, S. Philosophy of dependent emergence. 12.Datta, D. M. Knowledge, reality and the unknown. 13.Haldar, H. Realistic idealism.

Biography

S Radhakrishnan was a Indian philospher and statesman, his academic appointments included professor of philosophy at the University of Mysore (1921-32), the King George V Chair of Mental and Moral Science at the University of Calcutta (1921-1932) and Spalding Professor of Eastern Religion and Ethics at University of Oxford.

J H Muirhead was a British philosopher best known for having initiated the Muirhead Library of Philosophy in 1890. He became the first person named to the Chair of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham in 1900.