Constructing Indian Philosophical Antidotes for the Cardinal Fallacies

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-60
Author(s):  
Himani Chaukar ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Indian Philosophy ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Major Contributor ◽  
Human Race ◽  
Meaningful Life ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Rabindranath Tagore ◽  
Guiding Principle ◽  
Sanskrit Word ◽  
Key Aspects

Philosophy in general is defined as the theory or attitude that acts as a guiding principle for an enriched life. Since time immemorial, many notable scholars have guided humanity towards leading a nourished and fulfilling life through their philosophical preaching and writings and were used by as benchmarks many in their day-to-day life. With the passage of time, Philosophy has taken strides and has evolved majorly to touch the human race irrespective of their caste, race, color, creed, region, etc. and is presently a major contributor for a better world. An extension of this subject is the Logic Based Therapy (LBT) which is slowly but surely is gaining grounds in today's world and is being used as a proficient tool to enhance the value of an individual's life by tackling his erroneous thoughts, also called fallacies in philosophical terms and to bring him on track towards a better existence. Hence, Logic-Based-Therapy (LBT) is fundamentally a philosophical therapy as it makes use of the philosophical wisdom from antiquity, transforming them into antidotes and ultimately using these potent antidotes to treat the cardinal fallacies. Till date, LBT has been the domain of Western philosophical antidotes but Indian philosophy also has an immense plethora of insights to offer in this area. The Sanskrit word for Philosophy is 'Darshan' which means 'Vision'. Indian Philosophy is considered as the vision of the wise and learned people and it becomes even more relevant as it embeds the potential to make our lives qualitatively better. Hence, the ultimate aim of Indian Philosophy is to be a guide for humanity and lead them towards the path of leading a 'good and meaningful life' whilst overcoming our fallacies and issues in our daily lives mainly through the preaching and writings of some great Indian philosophers. The current paper is an attempt at constructing such useful Indian Philosophical antidotes from the ideas of some of the most prominent contemporary Indian Philosophers like Rabindranath Tagore, Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi, Lokamanya Tilak, Gopal Agarkar and J. Krishnamurti. The main focus being the key aspects of these philosopher's ideas that are relevant in addressing the cardinal fallacies and strengthening/promoting the corresponding transcendental virtues.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Martin Kämpchen
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Indian Philosophy ◽  
Foreign Teachers ◽  
Rabindranath Tagore ◽  
The Core

Both Rabindranath Tagore and Paul and Edith Geheeb were deeply committed educators. Their respective schools in India and Germany (and later Switzerland) were at the core of their creative lives. These schools helped to shape the image and the international influence of their founders. Due to Tagore’s global contacts after he won the Nobel Prize in 1913, many foreign teachers offered their services in Santiniketan. In Paul Geheeb’s case, too, Indian persons came to teach Indian philosophy or just to participate in the school’s activities. Indian influence on the students’ lives has been notable. I have been visiting the Ecole d’Humanité often for over two decades. I met Paul Geheeb’s successor, Armin Lüthi, who allowed me to use the Ecole’s Archive. I sent a trained artist from a tribal village near Santiniketan to the Ecole to teach; he was twice invited to return. Thus the link between the Ecole and Santiniketan could be revived.

Rabindranath Tagore – poszukiwanie prawdy i piękna w teorii i w Szkole Poety

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (4 (246)) ◽  
pp. 95-110
Author(s):  
Zofia Krawczyk
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Indian Philosophy ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
Indian Culture ◽  
Rabindranath Tagore ◽  
Philosophy Of Life ◽  
European Tradition ◽  
The World ◽  
Art Of Life

The article is based on the author’s personal and long-year experience gathered while observing and living the life in India. The text addresses the problems and struggles of elites of a society on the crossroads of various civilisations. In addition, it touches upon often contradictory visions of the world and social order, which does not prevent any of them from finding space to perfect specific aspects of spiritual life. In India, we can see very clearly how two planes and two levels of Indian culture – the philosophy of life and the art of life – cross and, at the same time, blend with each other. The most general aspect of these considerations results from the common essence that permeates Indian culture and skills of co-existence. Its contributions to global culture are: a unique view, cognition and evaluation of the world. It also added a more profound interest in mankind than in other cultures, supported by the intellectual effort to explore what conditions its being, and what can decondition that being. As a result of that interest, deepened throughout dozens of centuries, the Indian philosophy proposes a notion of the human being that is wider than in the European tradition. Moreover, it also advances methods and techniques of upbringing of the young generation so that it would manifest a conscious attitude to the tradition and art of life in the broadest meaning of the word, and be able to build a balance between the self – the microworld – and the macroworld in a peaceful and disciplined manner.

scholarly journals The Metropolis and the “Bloodless Characters”: A Comparative Study of James Joyce’s “A Painful Case” and Yusuf Idrīs’s “Qāʿ al-Madīna” [“The Bottom of the City”]

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (9) ◽  
pp. 233-241
Author(s):  
Ghada Abdel Hafeez
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Mental Life ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Perception Of Self ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

The current paper has been developed to examine the complexities of metropolitan subjects’ blasé attitude and bloodless life as portrayed in James Joyce’s “A Painful Case” and Yusuf Idrīs’s “Qāʿ al-Madīna” [“The Bottom of the City”] short stories. The paper aims at analyzing the impact of metropolis on its bloodless characters’ mental health and perception of self through the unpacking of the blasé attitude which emerges in Georg Simmel’s famous study “The Metropolis and Mental Life.” Using Simmel’s study as a tool to analyze the two short stories, the paper will comment on and compare the manner in which the Irish and the Egyptian urban texts decipher the code of their modern metropoles to interpret in what ways Simmel’s insights illuminate our understanding of the dilemma of the metropolitan subject.  In this paper the urban and literary theory will complement each other in shedding light on the emergence of new forms of socialization. The paper reaches the conclusion that the overall image of the metropolis portrayed in the two short stories was constructed through the mutilated sensibilities of the metropolitan subjects that have become dispirited by the routine of their daily lives. The two protagonists – Mr. Duffy and Mr. Abdallah - end up living like strangers who maintain minimal comunication with others due the cold and unfeeling rationality they adopt to protect themselves against the overstimulation of their dehumanizing metropoles.

scholarly journals The Characteristics of Simile in the Uzbek and Korean Languages and the Differences of Animals Used for Simile Supplementary Concepts

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 790-801
Author(s):  
Minyoung Jo
Keyword(s):  
Cold Weather ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Human Race ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Cognitive Activities ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Metaphoric Expression ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Geographical Locations

This thesis explains the simile concepts and their distinctive usages in Uzbek and Korean languages, including the differences and similarities of the subjects being used in both languages as simile supplementary concepts. Humans vividly express their thoughts that are varied and difficult to express using simile. Expressions comparing animals accompanying the human race with the subject of simile are frequently used in daily lives. Many scholars, globally, have proved that metaphoric expression is an important tool for human cognitive activities, and making expressions in comparison to animals, the closest beings to humans, has proved to be an effective way of human communication. The use of animals in simile expressions in the Uzbek and Korean languages could appear different according to the different cultures and geographical locations, including examples such as the donkey and camel. Simile expressions with comparison to donkeys are naturally used among the Uzbeks as they were used as means of transportation (as wagons). Camel, which inhabits Uzbek but not Korea, is also used as a supplementary concept of simile; in Uzbek, strong cold weather is expressed as “the cold weather like camels.” In Korea, there is a similar metaphoric expression as in “bull wind.”

Can Art Embody Truth? Ethics, Aesthetics and Gandhi

Social Change ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 004908572199685
Author(s):  
John Clammer
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Indian Philosophy ◽  
World View ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Rabindranath Tagore ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Moral Standards ◽  
The Status ◽  
Classical Indian Philosophy ◽  
Formed Part

The philosophical question of whether moral standards apply in art and the practical one of whether the arts can be vehicles of positive social transformation run through a great deal of social theory. In this article, these issues are discussed through an examination of Mahatma Gandhi’s approach to art and in particular his views on music and visual arts as they formed part of his personal world view and his socio-political programme. The article contextualises this in relation to Gandhi’s over-arching concern with the pursuit of truth and its theistic basis, his relationship to certain aspects of classical Indian philosophy and in particular the status of rasa among the four traditional purusharthas, and his relationship with Rabindranath Tagore and the artists at Kala Bhavan in Santiniketan, in particular Nandalal Bose. The article suggests that Gandhi was far from uninterested in aesthetic matters, but that the key to his thought lies in his holistic approach to both philosophy and lifestyle where the arts play an important role when integrated with ethical and religious demands.

Significance of Bioentrepreneurship

2021 ◽  
pp. 22-38
Author(s):  
Diksha Kumari
Keyword(s):  
Side Effects ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Fuel Production ◽  
Human Race ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Renewable Chemicals

Since the age of civilization, humans have been using products based on biotechnology, and these products have become part of our daily lives. The entrepreneur is the driving force of any organization. Biotechnology entrepreneurship is the alliance of two disciplines, business and science. Biotechnology-related business is aimed to commercialize the bio-products as well as enhance the research to benefit the human race. Firstly, bio-entrepreneurship has the potential to develop new techniques to protect the environment from diseases, fuel production, feed the hungry, and various other product preparations. Hence, these products provide new and better ways with minimum side effects to detect, cure, and prevent harmful diseases. Secondly, these bio-based products including biofuels and renewable chemicals are targeted to grow from approximately $203.3 billion in 2015 to $487 billion by 2024.

scholarly journals REVOLUTIONS AND HUMANISTIC MEANING OF HISTORY

2021 ◽  
pp. 35-49
Author(s):  
Nikolai S. Rozov
Keyword(s):  
Future Generations ◽  
Formal Institutions ◽  
Human Race ◽  
Meaningful Life ◽  
Self Test ◽  
Scarcity Of Resources

The role of social revolutions is considered in two interrelated contexts: the meaning of history and modernization. The meaning of history is interpreted as a success of the historical selftest of humanity in building large intra- and interstate systems of formal institutions and organizations (Gesellschaft) that would provide the most favourable conditions for the development of various small informal, based on trust and solidarity communities (Gemeinschaft) and for a full value (free, worthy and meaningful) life of individuals of the current and future generations. This global historical self-test needs to overcome the harsh obstacles: from scarcity of resources to group selfishness, inescapable temptations to hegemony, conflict, violence, and exploitation. Modernization with its five main lines occurs to be extremely significant for the historical success of the global self-test. Bureaucratization and capitalist industrialization are ambiguous, while secularization, democratization and ensuring of creative freedom fully correspond to the meaning of history thus understood. Revolutions interact with the main lines of modernization in a complicated way. They destroy old bureaucracies and create new ones, lead to secularization or its reversal, contribute to the development of capitalism or destroy the markets of the capital, labour and land, lead societies to democracy or to even greater authoritarianism, open up freedom to cultural creation or suppress it. Revolutions are the most effective but also the most controversial phenomena, both in terms of modernization and in terms of the meaning of history as a global self-test of the human race.

scholarly journals Role of Philosophy of Education in India

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-21
Author(s):  
Kiran Srivastava
Keyword(s):  
Educational Philosophy ◽  
Indian Philosophy ◽  
Philosophy Of Education ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Everyday Functioning ◽  
Rabindranath Tagore ◽  
Sri Aurobindo ◽  
Education In India

One of the important aspects of educational philosophy is that it helps to construct a comprehensive system of education. During different periods, India has witnessed various stages of development. New priorities have emerged in education with the influences of monastic scholastic, realistic, idealistic and pragmatic trends. While education institutions have evolved, there remain several gaps between the philosophical ideals proposed by educational institutions and their everyday functioning. The paper brings forth the urgent need to bridge the gaps in order to attain a comprehensive philosophy of education, in principle and in action. The authors posit that the Indian philosophy of education, normatively speaking, could extend the culture and tradition of the philosophical positions of Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo and Swami Vivekananda. Such an approach could help in developing an integrated approach of teachers towards education and assist in strengthening their role in shaping the inner potential of a learner in a constructive manner.

Zero Marking of Past Tense in Child African American English

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 173-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Lee ◽  
Janna B. Oetting
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
American English ◽  
African American English ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Past Tense ◽  
Typically Developing ◽  
Grammatical Function

Zero marking of the simple past is often listed as a common feature of child African American English (AAE). In the current paper, we review the literature and present new data to help clinicians better understand zero marking of the simple past in child AAE. Specifically, we provide information to support the following statements: (a) By six years of age, the simple past is infrequently zero marked by typically developing AAE-speaking children; (b) There are important differences between the simple past and participle morphemes that affect AAE-speaking children's marking options; and (c) In addition to a verb's grammatical function, its phonetic properties help determine whether an AAE-speaking child will produce a zero marked form.

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