Can Indian and Western Philosophy Be Synthesized
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9214747 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A R Wadia (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1955 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 291 |
| Publication date | 1955-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy East and West (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8221 • E-ISSN: 1529-1898 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1396740 |
| OpenAlex | W2330856539 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
DR. ALBERT SCHWEITZER is not the only European philosopher to cast doubt on the question whether India can really claim to have produced philosophy, but it is interesting to note that in India there are several Indian professors of philosophy who also feel, nurtured as they are in the methods of Western philosophy, that India has produced no philosophy. At the same time there are thinkers even in the West who have developed a serious admiration for the great Indian classics such as the Upanisads and the Git?, and for the great acaryas like Samhkara and Rimanuja, and attempts are being made to see how far the great philosophic traditions of India can be synthesized with those of ancient Greece and modern Europe. In this endeavor both Indian and Western scholars have been seriously at work. But the question remains whether this attempt at synthesizing will bear any fruit. We have to note certain marked differences in the philosophical traditions of India and the West. Since the days of Socrates, the real founder of European philosophy, there has been a full-fledged emphasis in the West on reason as the dominant method in philosophy. Nothing can be philosophical which is not rational and nothing can be rational which is not logical. This is still the great message of European philosophy up to the present time. An exception, of course, will have to be made in connection with the Schoolmen in the Middle Ages, who were extremely acute and logical, but at the same time their logic was limited by the assumptions of religious dogmas, which made philosophy literally a handmaid to religion. In Indian philosophy there has also been a good deal of logic. The emphasis, however, has not been on reason but on some type of intuition, an insight, and that is why the schools of Indian philosophy have come to be known as darisanas.' Every Indian philosopher is expected not merely to have intellectual concepts but to realize what he conceives to be the ultimate reality. It is this realization which is the main aim of Indian
Epistemology · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Indian History and Philosophy · Philosophy
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| Citation span | 1978 - 2015 (38) |
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