Contemporary Indian philosophy/
Basant Kumar Lal
- New Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass, 2005.
- xxi,346p. ; 22cm.
I Swami Vivekananda Life. The influences that shaped his philosophy. His metaphysical standpoint. Reality and God. Proofs for God's existence. Some other characters of God. Nature of the world : the Cosmos. The Doctrine of Maya. Nature of Man. The Physical nature of Man. The Spiritual nature of Man. Freedom and Karma. Destiny of the Soul : Realisation of Immortality. Evidences in its favour. Nature of the Liberated. Ways of Realisation : The way of Knowledge (Jnanayoga). The way of Devotion (Bhakti-marga). The way of Action (Karma-marga). The way of Psychology (Raja-yoga). A final note on the four kinds of Yoga. Religion, its nature. Religion as a necessary aspect of life. Origin of Religion, Nature of Religion. Nature and Ideal of Universal Religion. II Rabindranath Tagore Introduction. General Philosophical standpoint. Reality and God. Proofs for God's existence. Crea tion. Doctrine of Maya. Degrees of Reality. Nature of Man. (i) The finite-infinite nature of man (ii) The finite aspect of man (iii) The Infinite aspect of man's nature (iv) Soul and Body. Nature of Religion. Human Destiny. The Problem of Evil. Ways of Realisation : (i) Soul-consciousness and self-consciousness, (ii) The ways : Realisation in Love. Realisation in Action. Realisation of Beauty. Realisation of the Infinite. Tagore's Humanism. Ill Mahatama Gandhi Life. Influences that shaped his Thought. God and Truth. Truth is God. Proofs for the exist ence of God. Some other characters of God. Nature of the world. Nature of Man. Karma and Rebirth. Non-violence. The technique of Ahimsa : Satya- graha. Requirements of a Satyagrahi. Kinds of Satyagraha. Philosophy of End and Means. Reli gion and Morality ; (i) What is Religion (ii) the way of Religion (iii) attitude towards living Reli gions (iv) attitude towards Hinduism. Morality : (i) Religion and Morality (ii) what is Morality ? (iii) The Cardinal Virtues. Social and Political Ideas : (i) Society, (ii) The natural classes or the ^Varnas (iii) Bread Labour (iv) Equality of wages »'(v) Labour, Capital and the Doctrine of Trusteeship (vi) The economic basis of Society (vii) against too much of Industrialisation (viii) Men and Women in Society (ix) Nature 6f his Political Ideas (x) Political freedohi : Swaraj (xi) The State and the Individual (xii) Decentralisation (xiii) Ideal State and Sarvodaya (xiv) Education (xv) Swadeshi, Nationalism, Internationalism. IV Sri Aurobindo Life. The Philosophical Background. The Two Negations. Reality — Saccidananda. The Pure Existent. The Consciousness-force. The delight of Existence : Bliss. Nature of Creation. The world- process : Descent or Involution. Maya and Lila. Ascent or Evolution. The four Theories of Exist ence. Nature of Man. Rebirth and the Law of Karma. Ignorance, its origin and nature. The Sevenfold Ignorance. The Supermind. The triple status of the Supermind. The triple transformation. Gnostic Being and Divine Life; (i) Nature of the Gnostic Being (ii) types of Gnostic.Being (ill) Personality of the Gnostic Being. The Divine Life. Integral Yoga, its nature. How is it integral ? V Krislmachandra Bhatiacharya Life. General Character of his Thought. Concept of Philosophy : (i) Theoretic • consciousness (ii) its four grades, Science. Philosophy of the object, Philosophy of the Spirit, Philosophy of Truth. Theory of knowledge. Negation as the basis of his philosophy. Notion of Subjectivity : (a) The subject and the object (b) further analysis of sub jectivity (c) A summing up. Progressive realisa tion of the Subject's freedom. Concept of the Absolute and its alternation. VI S. Radhakrishnan Life. Nature of his philosophy. Nature of the Ultimate Reality. The Absolute or the Brahman. Absolute and God. World. Nature of the Soul. The finite aspects of Man. The Infinite aspect of Man's nature, true nature of the Soul. Some other characters. Are Souls one or many ? The Doctrine of Rebirth. Human Destiny. The Way of Realisation, Religion, its nature. Religious Ex perience. Essence of Religion. The Way of Reli gion. An element of Mysticism. Different ways of knowing Inadequacy of Sense experience. Inade quacy of Intellectual Cognition, Intuition and Sense- impression. Intuition and Intellect. Nature of Intuitive Apprehension. VII Sir Mohammad Iqbal Life. General Introduction. Nature of Intuition. Objections against Intuition considered. Nature of the Self. Nature of the World. Space and Time. The World as an Ego. God. On the traditional proofs for the existence of God. God as the Supreme Ego. Attributes of God. Knowledge, Omnipotence, Eternity, Immanence and Transcen dence. Human Destiny. Importance of Prayer.