{"id":74095,"date":"2022-11-22T08:01:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T08:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=74095"},"modified":"2022-11-28T03:24:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T03:24:00","slug":"philosophy-and-the-quest-for-meaning-paulos-mar-gregorios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=74095","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy and the Quest for Meaning | Paulos Mar Gregorios"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Philosophy and the Quest for Meaning<\/h2>\n

Glimpses of Philosophical and Cultural Inquiry – Classical and Contemporary, Western and Eastern<\/p>\n

Paulos Mar Gregorios<\/b><\/p>\n

Edited by Fr Dr K M George<\/p>\n

Phone: +91 9447598671<\/p>\n

Published by: Dr. Paulos Mar Gregorios Chair, School of Gandhian Thought & Development Studies, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam<\/p>\n

in association with the<\/p>\n

Department of Printing and Publishing, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India<\/p>\n

&<\/p>\n

Dr. Paulos Mar Gregorios Smaraka Samithi, Kottayam<\/p>\n

Email: pmgchair.mgu@gmail.com<\/p>\n

First Published: June 2013<\/p>\n

Revised and enlarged<\/p>\n

Second Edition: November 24, 2022<\/p>\n

ISBN 978-93-80419-59-6<\/p>\n

Typesetting: Sophia Print House, Kottayam<\/p>\n

Cover Design: Mathews Orathel, Kottayam<\/p>\n

Printed at Anaswara Offset, Ernakulam<\/p>\n

Rs. 800\/-<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contents<\/h2>\n

Some Fundamental Questions<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 Wholeness: How to Handle It or Fit into It? 19<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 How is Meaning Derived? A Methodological Exploration\u00a0 that Affects the Content 26<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 Can Philosophy Create Culture? 45<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0 Pursuit of Truth Anticipating the Future 51<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0 Is Experience the Necessary Ground of Philosophy? 61<\/p>\n

Consciousness, Epistemology and Science<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0 East-West Perspectives on Science and Spirit,\u00a0Time and Consciousness 67<\/p>\n

7.\u00a0 How Do We Psychoanalyse Our Societies and Religions? 79<\/p>\n

8.\u00a0 The New Self-Understanding of Science: Implications\u00a0for Hermeneutics and Theology 101<\/p>\n

9.\u00a0 The Unity of the Grand Continuum 119<\/p>\n

10.\u00a0 Method and Epistemology in Science: Some Counter-Comments on Chance, Necessity and Predictability 135<\/p>\n

11.\u00a0 Phenomenology and the Transcendent: Which Way\u00a0does One Transcend? 146<\/p>\n

12.\u00a0 Issues in Hermeneutical Discussion in the West 166<\/p>\n

13. Hermeneutics in India Today\u00a0in the Light of the World Debate\u00a0 181<\/p>\n

Modernity, Post-Modernity and Future<\/p>\n

14.\u00a0 The Element of Modernity in Modern Philosophy:\u00a0An Epistemological Analysis 204<\/p>\n

15.\u00a0 Modern, Post-Modern and the Future of Humanity 215<\/p>\n

16.\u00a0 Post-Modernity from the Perspective\u00a0of Our Indian Tradition 234<\/p>\n

17.\u00a0 Fashioning the Future 237<\/p>\n

18.\u00a0 How do We Get from Here to There?\u00a0\u00a0or How is Tomorrow’s World to be Shaped? 253<\/p>\n

Greece, Egypt, India and Neoplatonism<\/p>\n

19.\u00a0 The Nile and the Indus 272<\/p>\n

20.\u00a0 Hind and Hellas 284<\/p>\n

21.\u00a0 Sabda\/Sakthi and Word\/Spirit 302<\/p>\n

22. The Catalyst in Neoplatonism and Christian Mysticism 308<\/p>\n

23.\u00a0 Soul and Body in Plotinus and Proclus 318<\/p>\n

24. Historical Human Beings as Body-Soul Composites:\u00a0Their Relation to the One and to the World in Plotinus and Proclus – and Some Questions 323<\/p>\n

25.\u00a0 Nagarjuna, Dignaga and Dharmakirthi: The Three Bright\u00a0\u00a0Stars in the Firmament of Indian Thought 334<\/p>\n

26. The Crisis of Western Philosophy: In Search of a Tradition – But Where to Look for It? 345<\/p>\n

27.\u00a0 Evaluation of Indian Philosophy in the Context of\u00a0World Philosophy 358<\/p>\n

28.\u00a0 Who are We in Bharatavarsha Today? 372<\/p>\n

Certain Specific Issues in Philosophy<\/p>\n

29.\u00a0 If There Were No Evil in the World… Random Reflections\u00a0on the Dubious Reality of Evil 387<\/p>\n

30.\u00a0 Certainty and the Secular: Which Do We Want – Philosophy Grounded in the Subjective Consciousness or on Objective\u00a0Social Analysis? 392<\/p>\n

31.\u00a0 The Mystery of History 406<\/p>\n

32.\u00a0 On Poverty of Philosophy and Philosophy of Poverty:\u00a0 The Task of Indian Philosophy Today 419<\/p>\n

33.\u00a0 A Reverse in the Trend of Secularization: Are We Ready? 433<\/p>\n

34.\u00a0 The Material Spirituality of Real Humanism: The Marxist\u00a0Approach to \u2018Spirituality\u2019 446<\/p>\n

Author Index 465<\/p>\n

Subject Index468<\/p>\n

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