INDIAN PHILOSOPHY

PHILOSOPHY – TOWARDS A WORLD PHILOSOPHY
aim of the human mind in its highest flights of intuitive
awareness. That this may be beyond the modern
capacities of man can be admitted. But that philosophy
should never go beyond these capacities, else it should
cease to be a philosophy, cannot be as easily admitted
or accepted. The greatest Seers of the East have gone
beyond the humanistic self-imposed limitations when
they affirmed the truths of mysticism and religion as
transcending the regions of pure intellection of the
human mind.
IS HUMANISM A SUFFICIENT PHILOSOPHY?
Humanism, however practically useful and
intelligible, is not capable of being a real world
philosophy. Or if the word ‘world’ refers to the current
evolutionary conception of man alone, the reality which
transcends man and his faculties would forever be
refused the name of philosophy. In fact, that this is not
so strange a conclusion can be sent from the enormous
seriousness with which the pragmatic materialistic and
mentalistic speculations about Reality have a larger
hearing than the call to understand this world in terms
of spiritual conceptions beyond the range and ability of
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