Studies in Comparative Philosophy

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Item Code: IDL194
Author: Swami Krishnananda
Publisher: The Divine Life Society
Edition: 2000
Pages: 185
Cover: Paperback
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Introduction

It has been said that there is a radical difference between the Western and the Eastern methods of approach in the pursuit of philosophy. Western philosophers are generally distinguished from the Eastern by their exclusively rational approach to the ultimate reality of the universe and in their paying not much attention to or being totally indifferent to the method of intuition. Some historians of western philosophy have gone even to the extent of dobbing all Eastern thought as shot through with faith and not deserving of inclusion in such a chronicle. No doubt there were some exceptionally great mystics in the West too, who proclaimed the possibility of an intuitional approach to Truth by transcending the realms of sense, understanding and reason. But they were mostly the targets of suspicion and a superior attitude on the part of the logical thinkers. On a study of the history of philosophy in the west we come across variegated types of philosophers who made diverse approaches to the problems of life and established several schools of philosophy which generally comprehend vast fields of observation investigation and research such as logic, epistemology metaphysics aesthetics ethics psychology and mysticism. in modern times however, the implication of the discoveries in physical science have are those in India, however who think that an attempt to study and understand the methods and conclusions of these thinkers in the west is just energy misspent holding as they do the view that the method of faith and intuition in philosophy mostly followed in India Is the holy practicable useful and trustworthy way. we need not take any one side of these extreme views of the traditional conservatives of either the West or the East. Knowledge is neither Western nor Eastern but universal. It is also not true that the Indian philosophers abrogated reason as absolutely futile though they emphasized its natural limits. There are certain schools in India which establish their systems exclusively on rational grounds without discrediting the value and need of intuition in any way. the philosopher Shankara, who was an ardent adherent to authority and revelation, made full use of the powers of reason in founding his stupendous systems and said that the Vedanta is ornamented by the fact that its strength lies not merely in appealing to revelation but reason and experience also adding however a note that reason unbridled which goes counter to revelation but reason unbridled which goes counter to revelation should be rejected as misleading. In our study of philosophy, we may make use of methods and conclusions of the systems of the West in gaining mastery over the philosophies of Indian seers and sages. The philosophy of the Vedanta is characterized by integrality in its meaning methods and scope, built on the foundations of the most incisive logical analysis and it rejects nothing as totally useless though it accepts nothing without sifting it through the sieve of direct experience in super-sensuous intuition. It would certainly add to our knowledge to make a comparative study of the philosophies of some of the great Western thinkers and of philosophy of the Vedanta which is the culmination of Indian Thought. We may begin with the great Greek sage Socrates.

Publisher’s Note

The present volume consists of the series of essays written by the author on a comparative study of western and eastern thought originally published partly through the columns of the “The Divine Life” Journal of this Society and partly as the concluding chapters of the author’s work “The Philosophy of Life”.

We are happy to bring these writings together in a single volume now for the benefit of the interested readers.

Contents

Publishers’ Notev
Introduction 3
Socrates5
Plato9
Aristotle 19
Plotinus26
Rene Descartes 31
Benedict Spinoza 40
G.W.Leibniz51
John Locke 64
George Berkeley 73
David Hume 78
Immanuel Kant 84
George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 100
Arthur Schopenhauer 112
Friedrich Nietzsche 121
William James 125
Henri Bergson134
Samuel Alexander 143
Alfred North Whitehead148
The Neo-Hegelians 159
The Importance of the Study of Western Thought 166
Philosophy and life 178
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