Philosophy and the Quest for Meaning
Glimpses of Philosophical and Cultural Inquiry – Classical and Contemporary, Western and Eastern
Paulos Mar Gregorios
Edited by Fr Dr K M George
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Published by: Dr. Paulos Mar Gregorios Chair, School of Gandhian Thought & Development Studies, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam
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First Published: June 2013
Revised and enlarged
Second Edition: November 24, 2022
ISBN 978-93-80419-59-6
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Contents
Some Fundamental Questions
1. Wholeness: How to Handle It or Fit into It? 19
2. How is Meaning Derived? A Methodological Exploration that Affects the Content 26
3. Can Philosophy Create Culture? 45
4. Pursuit of Truth Anticipating the Future 51
5. Is Experience the Necessary Ground of Philosophy? 61
Consciousness, Epistemology and Science
6. East-West Perspectives on Science and Spirit, Time and Consciousness 67
7. How Do We Psychoanalyse Our Societies and Religions? 79
8. The New Self-Understanding of Science: Implications for Hermeneutics and Theology 101
9. The Unity of the Grand Continuum 119
10. Method and Epistemology in Science: Some Counter-Comments on Chance, Necessity and Predictability 135
11. Phenomenology and the Transcendent: Which Way does One Transcend? 146
12. Issues in Hermeneutical Discussion in the West 166
13. Hermeneutics in India Today in the Light of the World Debate 181
Modernity, Post-Modernity and Future
14. The Element of Modernity in Modern Philosophy: An Epistemological Analysis 204
15. Modern, Post-Modern and the Future of Humanity 215
16. Post-Modernity from the Perspective of Our Indian Tradition 234
17. Fashioning the Future 237
18. How do We Get from Here to There? or How is Tomorrow’s World to be Shaped? 253
Greece, Egypt, India and Neoplatonism
19. The Nile and the Indus 272
20. Hind and Hellas 284
21. Sabda/Sakthi and Word/Spirit 302
22. The Catalyst in Neoplatonism and Christian Mysticism 308
23. Soul and Body in Plotinus and Proclus 318
24. Historical Human Beings as Body-Soul Composites: Their Relation to the One and to the World in Plotinus and Proclus – and Some Questions 323
25. Nagarjuna, Dignaga and Dharmakirthi: The Three Bright Stars in the Firmament of Indian Thought 334
26. The Crisis of Western Philosophy: In Search of a Tradition – But Where to Look for It? 345
27. Evaluation of Indian Philosophy in the Context of World Philosophy 358
28. Who are We in Bharatavarsha Today? 372
Certain Specific Issues in Philosophy
29. If There Were No Evil in the World… Random Reflections on the Dubious Reality of Evil 387
30. Certainty and the Secular: Which Do We Want – Philosophy Grounded in the Subjective Consciousness or on Objective Social Analysis? 392
31. The Mystery of History 406
32. On Poverty of Philosophy and Philosophy of Poverty: The Task of Indian Philosophy Today 419
33. A Reverse in the Trend of Secularization: Are We Ready? 433
34. The Material Spirituality of Real Humanism: The Marxist Approach to ‘Spirituality’ 446
Author Index 465
Subject Index468
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